Maryland Smith Experts Available on Juneteenth’s Significance for Workplaces, Organizations

Leaders and experts at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are available to discuss Juneteenth’s significance for organizations and workplaces.

They can address such underlying concepts as understanding and navigating ‘racial and gender overtones to professionalism” and “workplace belongingness.”

These concepts also are central to a June 17 “Black Liberation in the Workplace” virtual fireside chat presented by Maryland Smith. The following individuals, organizers and/or participants in the event, are available for interview:

• Victor Mullins, vmullins@umd.edu: Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Diversity Officer, 
• Lauren Rhue,  [email protected]: Assistant Professor of Information Systems and fireside chat host with special guest Toye Wigley, director of global diversity equity and inclusion for PayPal.