Let’s Talk Diversity and Inclusion | Courtney Tritch | TEDxFortWayne

The national dialogue is brimming with polarizing, barbed comments about diversity. How is that conversation playing out here in Northeast Indiana and why should you care? In an increasingly diverse and connected world, our economic survival may very well depend on our willingness to step outside our comfort zone and have a conversation about just who is welcome in our region. Are you ready to talk?
Courtney Tritch currently serves as the VP of Marketing at the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership
and has a shared love for community and positive change. Through her work at the Regional
Partnership, she has led nationally-recognized marketing campaigns and, most recently, she
spearheaded the Our Story Project to discover the region’s authentic and compelling story to market to
the world. With 15 years of brand building experience and her empathy for the underdog, she
constantly challenges herself and her community to be better than we are today.
She is an ATHENA Award nominee; a recipient of Business Weekly’s “40 Under 40” Award; and she won
Best in Show for her original, one woman show “The Identity Itch” performed at Fort Wayne Fringe Fest.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@TheReactor8]

Equality of opportunity (good) or outcome (bad)

[@harrystapleton3896]

anybody else think that Japan, Nigeria, Israel, Detroit, China and Somalia need some more diversity and to be more inclusive? No? strange...

[@Itwasntalieitwastrueinmymind]

This was very educational, thank you

[@prasantajiti204]

Wonderful

[@adrianoyorkshire]

I see the word diversity as a new type of cognition. We need to think in a diversity way.

[@chauminhpham6351]

2020 and still, "I can't breathe"

[@manukris23]

Same old White Feather Campaign in a new bottle.

[@prasantajiti204]

Wonderful thought every man should thought this to create better world

[@dibensy59]

She's in it for the money, and a cushy career talking for pay and attending functions. She also mentions nothing about white flight, or Robert Putnam's book Bowling Alone.

[@christopherhanley7516]

The title, unfortunately, says it all...and more. "Let 's talk" ? No, you're talking. You're assuming we are listening. Why would we listen? Oh, because(you assume) you're right and we are wrong and need to be (re) educated. But what if we don't share your assumptions?

[@gizmobirdman]

So, aside from the one benefit you mentioned northeast Indiana can hope to achieve through diversity (that being a competitive national community), what other innate benefits can we hope to reap by forcing ourselves to go out of our comfort zones?

[@SchoolofThought]

Great talk. We did some work recently for the Ada Developers Academy that focused on women in tech.

[@leozendo3500]

Fantastic. Disregarding the political correctness part, I enjoy how you cherish inclusivity over diversity, a potentially solidified image of ego.

[@whatyouneedtoknow]

I think some of the language we use is wrong. For example, instead of talking about Inclusion, we should be talking about Not Excluding ie making things equal. When we do that, Diversity is the outcome and not the goal. You can watch more videos about this on our channel.

[@nightflight83]

Diversity is overrated.

[@phoenix5054]

Diversity has its downside. More heterogeneous communities are more distrustful of each other and less likely to pursue self-sacrifice for the good of the group. Naturally, humans are tribal species and pushing diversity to everyone is a sure way to stirring discord.

[@Derek_Monk]

Delusion.

[@valerielaster1073]

I can't....bye

[@Eaglewach]

Only on paper, official diversity and inclusion, etc. And we keep talking with no active humane practicality, essentially. Nonsense.

[@markhulme9904]

Diversity is not just about race. This is a conflated load of the proverbial that ignores and hides the breadth of the term 'diversity'.