22 April 10
I made it to the SXSW official website
Many, many, many thanks to Hugh Forrest and the multitudes of other people who help make SXSW Interactive a great event every year. And I’m especially grateful to them for posting the condensed version of my 15 minute talk on their main website.
I’ve criticized SXSWi for not being as diverse as it could be in previous years and I’m grateful to have the ability to say that not only do I feel that they have taken the criticism seriously and they’ve made some serious alterations to their policies to make the conference more diverse, but I support the efforts that they’ve made to stress that panels NEED to be inclusive and diverse to the people who have had panels chosen.
And after seeing my video, Hugh emailed me to say that they’ll be including a portion of what I say about making panels diverse in the materials for next year’s conference. Real change CAN happen, but we have to speak up and we have to offer solutions. Not every conference organizer cares about diversity, so all the criticism in the world won’t change that. Many thanks to SXSWi for being willing to continue to find solutions to this problem.
And I’ve got some ideas kicking around for next year. I thank Glenda for having faith in me this year. And I feel like I need to continue to push myself in this direction. Stay tuned.
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