, Director of Society Communications at Google, and Sali Christeson, CEO and founder of women’s workwear line, spoke on how they are hoping to make a difference and what the cost of staying silent is for businesses.
In 2020, Nkonde and AI for the People researched the U.S. Top 50 companies’ $50 billion pledge to fight racial injustice. What Nkonde found may not be all that shocking: Gen Z-ers really care about companies that do what they said they're going to do and how a company treats their employees. But what may come as a surprise is that of the $50 billion pledged, only $250 million has been released to the public, “with a majority not going to systemic change,” Nkonde pointed out.
Meanwhile, Christeson got inspired after reading an “insane” statistic on how women are judged based on what they wear: How you dress impacts"your bottom line of your lifetime...20 to 40 percent," she said. So, in 2015, Christeson quit her job in tech and went on a personal mission to find clothes that were catered to working women, which became her workwear line, Argent.
Laura Modi explained how she was able to leverage Bobbie's celebrity partnerships to co-develop a bill on domestic formula manufacturing practices.