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Diversity Careers Super Fair Panel Session

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Join the DCSF Panel Session to hear from representatives at TAL, the University of Queensland, and The Lunar Foundation about what it's like to work with employers who celebrate differences and have an inclusive working culture. The moderator for this session is Alvi Ahmed from Out for Australia.

Event Details

Starts
Wed 4 Aug 2021, 2:00pm
Ends
Wed 4 Aug 2021, 2:30pm
Time Zone
Australia/Sydney
Cost
Free

Diversity Careers Super Fair Panel Session

Diversity Careers Super Fair Panelists

Read below to get to know your panelists!


Ross Wetherbee

TAL,   Talent & Inclusion Leader

Ross Wetherbee is Talent & Inclusion Leader at TAL Australia. TAL is a leading Life Insurance specialist and for over 150 years, has been protecting people, not things. TAL protect over 4.5 million Australians and their families.

At TAL, Ross leads the Diversity & Inclusion, Talent and Emerging Talent priorities for the organisation. TAL are an employer of choice for women, having maintained this status for the past nine years in a row, as measured by the Australian Workplace Gender Equality Agency. TAL are proud members of Pride in Diversity, and are currently developing their Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan, including their continuing partnerships with CareerTrackers, Supply Nation, NASCA and the First Nations Foundation.

Outside of work, Ross is a Board Director of Wear It Purple, a youth-led non-profit, in March 2018 he was named as the inaugural winner of the Diversity Champion category at the Australian LGBTI Awards, and in November 2018 was appointed as the President of Wear It Purple, all reflecting his passion for equality. In March 2019, Wear It Purple was recognised as Charity of the Year at the Australian LGBTI Awards.

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Mini Biti

The Lunar Foundation, Director

Mini Biti is a Diversity and Inclusion Practitioner and Director of The Lunar Foundation.  Mini is passionate about dismantling systemic barriers to enhance accessibility for marginalised groups in various settings such as the education system and the workforce.

Mini is a strong advocate for the multicultural community and those who are typically marginalized. She holds a degree from QUT and has postgraduate studies from Griffith Uni and Cornell University.

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Dino Willox

The University of Queensland, Director of Student Employability

Dr. Dino Willox is Director, Student Employability, at The University of Queensland and a Principal Fellow of AdvanceHE. Dino’s work spans professional, academic, curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular spaces, taking a multidimensional strategic approach to embedding employability development across UQ. Dino holds degrees in Philosophy, Sexual Politics, and Critical and Cultural Theory has published on experiential learning, employability, and queer theory, and has presented at conferences worldwide. In a former life, they represented Wales, Great Britain, and Australia as an international field hockey umpire. Dino’s pronouns are they/them.

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Moderator

Alvi Ahmed

Out for Australia,  Chief Financial Officer

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