Work: A Radically Optimistic Future
Episode description
In this Labor Day special a racy conversation takes place around labor, race, and equity - it’s an important one. This week, XPRIZE’s own Shlomy Kattan sits down with New Profit Partner, Dr. Angela Jackson, and attorney / activist, Karen Fleshman to discuss the future of work. Over the course of this conversation we take a deep dive into capitalism’s historic inequality, how Gen Z will save us all and the tools and procedures necessary to make meaningful careers accessible to ALL.
Dr. Angela Jackson leads New Profit’s Future of Work Initiative, which seeks to close the career-readiness gap for workers from disinvested communities. She is currently leading a $15M Future of Work global initiative to invest in entrepreneurs and companies developing innovative technical solutions to upskill workers for the jobs of the future.
Karen Fleshman is a mentor, activist, entrepreneur, attorney, author, educator, proud San Franciscan, and a single soccer mom. In 2014, she founded Racy Conversations, a workplace workshop facilitation company, to inspire the antiracist generation. Inspired by Mike Brown, Black Lives Matter, and her mentees, Karen vowed to stop preparing young adults for the workplace and start preparing the workplace for young adults. She is currently seeking a publisher for her first book White Women We Need to Talk: Doing Our Part to End Racism.
Links:
https://www.xprize.org/prizes/rapidreskilling
https://www.newprofit.org/go/fow-grand-challenge/
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