This special episode features an engaging and thought-provoking discussion with Clair Minson, a leading voice and expert on workforce system transformation and the Founder and Principal consultant at Sandra Grace LLC, a change management firm that provides training, consulting and thought partnership to organizations seeking to embed racial equity into their practice and policy work.
Clair highlights the intersectionality of job quality, racial equity and systems change work required across the community college and workforce development ecosystem to provide equitable pathways for careers with economic mobility. She shares valuable insights on how critical it is to truly center student, worker and learner voices, and how practitioners need to recognize the expertise that comes through student and worker lived experience and navigating systems that were not designed by or for them. Clair talks about the importance of breaking down silos across the workforce and higher ed ecosystem that maintain white supremacy and structural racism impacting Black and non-Black learners and workers of color.
The discussion moves to how colleges can integrate racial equity into their partnership work with employers aligning with the company’s talent development priorities.
This special episode along with the next are a chance to go deeper with workforce development policy and practice experts on the topic of job quality.
The All In: Student Pathways Forwardpodcast is a part of Oregon’s participation in the National Skills Coalition SkillSPAN network.