PASS THE MIC
Looking to make your next business event more diverse, inclusive, and welcoming? There’s no better place to start than with your speakers. We’ve hand-picked a few who may fly under the radar in the speaker circuit but raise the bar in making events more diverse — and way more interesting.
Arwa Mahdawi
Founder, president, chief hopes and dreams officer, and chief minority officer at Rent-a-Minority
ASCENT STORIES
What is Ascent?
- Ascent is an initiative by PCMA-Convene to promote inclusion and diversity across the business events industry.
- Ascent seeks to empower those challenged by gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, or disabilities to find success in our industry.
- Ascent strives to motivate and to educate decision-makers on the business case and best practices for inclusive workplaces and events.
- We believe that greater inclusion across the industry will foster new voices to strengthen our leadership, our businesses, and our world.
- By working together toward inclusion and diversity within our workplaces and at the events we produce, we will enact meaningful social change.