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This program gives explanations and strategies to help HR practitioners recognize and respond effectively when they encounter DEI opportunities and challenges. It is designed for varying levels of knowledge and experience with information that is based on current research.

WHO WE ARE

Kaye Craft

Debra Alexander

Allyson Martinez, Esq.

Julian Alexander

Kaye Craft

Kaye Craft is the President of K. Craft Associates, Inc.
(KCAI). She helps leaders and organizations build
sustainable, relational, and productive cultures that
embody the values and practices of diversity, equity, and
inclusion (DEI). Kaye brings more than 20 years of
experience in helping leaders, organizations, and work
groups identify and resolve organization culture and DEI
challenges which results in a more inclusive culture, the
ability for leaders and employees to work more
collaboratively and effectively, and while doing so to achieve
positive business results.
Kaye is a Professional Certified Coach through ICF, the
International Coach Federation. She was a recent keynote
speaker at an international OD conference. Her past
experience include Chair of NTL Institute and the Global
Faculty for BP Leadership Development Programs. She is
currently Senior Associate with the Emotional Intelligence
firm – Teleos Leadership Institute – where she co-leads
their Coaching and Race Workshop, Senior Associate with
Turningpoint, Inc. a strategic consulting and coaching firm
in Paris, France, Senior Consultant with the Collaborations
Group, Inc. – a consulting and coaching firm in the
academia sector, and Faculty for the BOLD Center at SEIU.
Kaye is completing a five-month program on Building
Relational Cultures at Relational Uprising. She completed
a post-graduate program in Organization and Systems
Development at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, holds an
MBA in Management and Organizational Behavior from
NYU, an MSW from Columbia University and a BA from
Hampton University.

Debra Alexander

Debra Alexander has more than 20 years of experience
in building organizational cultures that embody the
values of diversity, equity and inclusion. She is
passionate about promoting and sustaining employee
engagement, strengthening relationships and
improving the effectiveness and impact of individual,
team, leader and organizational performance. She and
her partner/spouse, Ben Alexander, created award
winning, popular training videos and instructional
products that are used by organizations in the U.S. and
abroad for their diversity training and initiatives. Debra
recently completed a ten-year appointment as a
Special Government Expert (in HR and OD) for the
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of
Transportation and has presented repeatedly at
national conferences including the Federal Dispute
Resolution (FDR) conference and the Forum on
Workplace Inclusion. She is on the faculty of the BOLD
Center, SEIU. In addition to completing doctoral studies
at Columbia University, she is currently a doctoral
candidate in Organization Development at the
University of St. Thomas. Her dissertation title, Radical
Inclusion, examines culturally based strategies for
mitigating and reducing the effects of bias. She also
completed the post-graduate program in Organization
and Systems Development from the Gestalt Institute of
Cleveland and holds an M.S. in Human Resources and
Organization Development from the American
University and a B.A. from Hampton University.

Allyson Martinez, Esq.

Allyson Martinez was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY.  Her educational background includes a B.A. in English and American Literature earned from Brown University in 1998, as well as a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, earned in 2004.   In 2006, Allyson became a Staff Attorney at Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan. Her general practice area was Corporate Law.  In 2019,  she became Special Counsel to District 45 Council Member Farah N. Louis.   Deciding to focus on providing new entrepreneurs of color with much needed small business startup legal services, Allyson started Coalition NYC.  She also co-founded a non-profit named Brooklyn Level Up to provide community-based services and support to small businesses and residents of East Flatbush in the areas of land use and housing services. Allyson is also a Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker with The Dima Lysius Team at the Corcoran Group.  She is also a former Brooklyn Community Board 17 Board Member, having served as Co-Chair of the Land Use Committee and Member of the Commerce Committee.  She currently is Chair of the Legislative Committee of the Unified Political Association and  a member of the Advisory Board of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum.  In her free time, she is an aficionado of international travel, art, fashion, and home design. Her activism focuses on developing community engagement strategies, helping people establish and grow small for-profit and not-for-profit businesses as well as preserve their homes in the face of over-development and deed fraud. Ultimately, her passion is finding ways to help her community to thrive by building networks of support, knowledge, partnership, creativity, and commitment to one another.

Julian Alexander

Julian Alexander lived as a child in Norfolk, VA and as an adult in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Julian obtained a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the Northern Film School in Leeds, UK, culminating with two short films, Léo has won multiple film festivals around the world and was nominated for Best Post Graduate Film at the Royal Television Awards, and Beat Blue, A police drama in rhyme. He has written, directed, and starred in a phone based web series produced by London based production company Story Island Productions, titled Bad JuJu, about a rapper navigating his career in New Mexico. His most recent film, Layla, At Last was funded by the Sharjah Art Foundation the UAE. When he is not leading a film set, Julian is leading a classroom as a professor in New Mexico, Texas, and currently and lecturer at the University of East London where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. 

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