Art as a Tool for Healing, Activism, and Equity
This episode features Brandi Junious, and you are in for a treat. She leads global diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across a multitude of industries, transforming multinational corporations, firms, nonprofit organizations, and local governments. She’s also an artist and uses her art to facilitate healing spaces.
Questions this episode will answer:
-What is an artivist?
-How can art therapy and creative expression be healing tools?
-How can creativity enhance DEI work?
You’ll want to stay for the whole episode because we talk about everything from art, childhood, therapy, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Connect with Brandi:
https://www.instagram.com/brandijunious.art/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandijunious/
Resources:
https://www.beaconoflightwholepersonwellness.com/
https://www.brandijuniousart.com/
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About Brandi:
Brandi Junious leads global diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across a multitude of industries, transforming multinational corporations, firms, nonprofit organizations, and local governments through the tactical interweaving of DEI practices into all facets of the business structure. Through strategic advising and management consulting, she helps senior leaders and human resource professionals live their equity mission and create more inclusive workplace cultures. Her areas of focus include strategic workforce diversity planning, pay equity analysis and remediation, DEI-centered change management, workplace culture assessment, developing and implementing equity-minded SMART goals, and the design, delivery, and facilitation of professional learning programs. She has partnered with Fortune 100 and 500 companies, media leaders, technology firms, and financial management organizations to advance DEI efforts, impacting thousands of employees and their surrounding communities.
Brandi is also an expert keynote speaker and facilitator, instructing on the topics of Using Data to Advance DEI Goals; Identifying and Overcoming Pay Disparities; Strategically Diversifying the Workforce; Embedding Racial Equity into HR Practices; and Budgeting for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Additionally, Brandi’s work through the USC Race and Equity Center has been featured in CUPA-HR’s Higher Ed HR Magazine, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, and the USC Rossier Magazine.
Brandi is also an internationally-recognized artist, artivist, and contributor to art movements centering identity, justice, and representation. She is also founder and CEO of Beacon of Light Whole-Person wellness, a nonprofit organization dedicated to research and programming designed to improve whole-person wellness through creative therapies and holistic healing. As a trauma-informed certified therapeutic art life coach, Brandi teaches individuals how to use art as a pathway for healing, restoration, and reclaiming power. Brandi prides herself on creating equitable spaces across contexts that promote recovery from racialized, gendered, and other forms of trauma and discrimination.
