Event Details
| Date | Wednesday, Mar 2, 2022 |
| Time | 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM |
Join the Publicity Club of Chicago on Wednesday, March 2 at 12:00 PM for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Inside and Out.
Panelists will include Flowers Communications Group Managing Director Jasmine Flowers Mazyck, CBS 2 Chicago and NAHJCC Vice-President Marissa Parra, NABJCC President and WCIU's Brandon Pope, and Northwestern University Medill School's Danielle Robinson Bell.
This will be an honest conversation unpacking the importance of having an authentic DEI voice and identity, how DEI has evolved over time, and the outlook of DEI for 2022 and beyond. We will also discuss how DEI issues are covered by journalists and pitched by communications professionals.
Speaker Bios
Jasmine Flowers Mazyck joined Flowers Communications Group in 2022 to serve as Managing Director. She is a strategic visionary leading the expantion of the agency’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion capabilities as well as other practice areas. Jasmine’s expertise combines her consulting and talent strategy experience with her passion for impacting multicultural communities.
Prior to FCG, Jasmine spent 17 years as a global Talent/HR consultant and leader in the management consulting industry, specifically with Deloitte and McKinsey and Company. She started off her career at Deloitte as a Human Capital Consultant developing and implementing change readiness strategies and learning strategies for large-scale clients across a range of industries. Jasmine grew her career at Deloitte and became a Global Talent Leader where she was the strategic thought partner with leadership to advise on strategic priorities including employee engagement, culture, professional development, performance management, retention, compensation, and diversity and inclusion. This included driving the Talent strategy for approximately 300 global employees and serving as the Talent DEI Champion advising business leaders on DEI metrics, trends, and best practices to define programs and initiatives that will positively impact the development and retention of diverse talent.
Most recently, Jasmine was a Global Talent Management leader at McKinsey & Company where she partnered with leaders to advance and activate DEI commitments and developed a leadership development strategy and program.
Jasmine is active in her community and coaches her kid’s lacrosse and basketball teams. Jasmine holds a B.A in Economics from Spelman College and an MBA from the University of Georgia Terry College of Business.
Jasmine resides in Powder Springs, GA with her husband Willie, and their three children Will, Kendall, Kennedy; and a goldendoodle, Zyck (Zeek).
Prior to joining the CBS 2 team in September 2019, Marissa served as a freelance producer with ABC News in Washington, D.C. During her tenure there, she produced hard news pieces with Good Morning America and served as a field producer for various breaking news events nationwide.
Previously, she began her broadcast career as a reporter and fill-in anchor with a TV station in central Virginia. It was then that she earned a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for team coverage of the deadly Charlottesville riots in 2017.
Marissa is a proud “Terp,”earning her degree in 2015 from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Perpetually sleep deprived, she reported for the campus news station, Maryland Newsline, while juggling classes and two jobs – one as an editor for the CBS station in D.C.
A proud Bolivian-American woman, Marissa is a part of the NAHJ Chicago chapter. In addition to hunting for saltenas that taste like home, she’s working on perfecting her Spanish and Arabic (and needs all the help she can get.)
Other hobbies include playing the ukulele badly, all things nerdy and exploring the outdoors. In summer months, you’ll probably find her somewhere along Lake Michigan.
If you see her, be sure to say hello and send adventure tips her way!
Brandon Pope
Brandon Pope is a journalist passionate about covering the issues Chicagoans care about most. Brandon is a board member for the Chicago chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, where he focuses on shepherding in the next generation of TV reporters. Brandon's mentorship experience also includes Big Brothers Big sisters.
His work has taken him all around the country and beyond the States. Covering the 2012 and 2016 Presidential Elections, 2012 London Summer Olympics, Indy 500, college football, PGA tour as well as the NFL and NBA playoffs. Outside his career, Brandon also appears on podcasts and radio programs to discuss topics ranging from superhero films to 'The Bachelor.'' Brandon is a proud Ball State University grad and journalism alumni board member. But that does not stop him for rooting for his Ohio State Buckeyes along with other Ohio sports teams. He's ALWAYS tweeting. If you've got a news tip for Brandon, want to share a funny meme, or want to suggest a good place to eat... send him a tweet!
Danielle Robinson Bell
Danielle Robinson Bell is an assistant professor at Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. She teaches strategic communications to undergraduate and graduate students in the school’s integrated marketing communications program. She works at the intersection of data, corporate communications, and impact specializing in efforts that advance culture, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
Danielle spent more than 15 years on the agency side of advertising and branding creating integrated marketing campaigns for some of the world’s most recognized brands. She serves on multiple faculty committees at Northwestern and is a board member of Gender IDEAL – a data centric platform for assessing gender equity in the workplace . Danielle is also a double alumna of Northwestern. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Medill and holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.