{"id":48333,"date":"2021-10-22T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=48333"},"modified":"2021-10-21T16:54:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T20:54:32","slug":"celebrating-our-people-global-diversity-awareness-month-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/celebrating-our-people-global-diversity-awareness-month-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Our People: Global Diversity Awareness Month Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

With thousands of employees dispersed throughout the United States, Samsung Electronics America represents a diverse workforce coming together to showcase innovation. While recognizing employees occurs on a daily basis in our workplace culture, Global Diversity Awareness Month provides the opportunity to celebrate the multitude of heritage, backgrounds and life experiences of our people throughout October.<\/p>\n

At Samsung, we are striving to cultivate an inclusive workspace that promotes diverse cultures and perspectives. \u201cAs part of our D&I journey, our employees are creating communities sharing their diverse stories helping us foster a culture of inclusion,\u201d said Tami DeWeese, Head of Diversity & Inclusion for Samsung Electronics America<\/strong>. \u201cEach employee holds unique life experiences which shape their perspective and lens contributing to robust dialogue in our workplace. During Global Diversity Awareness Month, we want to highlight our people. We are Samsung Strong and creating a better future because of the diversity of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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In our continued effort to encourage employees to be themselves while building a better tomorrow, we asked employees at Samsung Electronics America to participate in a three-part series highlighting what diversity and inclusion mean to them both in the workforce and beyond. Here\u2019s what they had to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, diversity and inclusion means strength in variety, not similarities, and this is what working at Samsung is like. At Samsung, it is clear that the company is working to foster diverse and inclusive communities among employees by celebrating,\u00a0embracing and sponsoring a variety of events through our Employee Resource Groups.\u201d \u2013Dan Wu<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI was born and raised in France and moved to America in my twenties, and as an immigrant, there is always a part of me that feels out of place. Working in an environment that values and encourages diversity \u2013 alongside people from different backgrounds and cultures \u2013 makes me feel like I belong and like I\u2019m valued. The events, panels, and initiatives that each Employee Resource Group leads help communities to not only express themselves, but also share their experiences company-wide to raise awareness and create change. As a member of the Samsung Equality Alliance leadership team, I get to be a part of the change within my own community.\u201d \u2013Johanne Millet<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs a Black woman, true and embraced diversity and inclusion mean that I am not \u201cothered,\u201d it means improving the actual D&I numbers in company leadership as well as active sponsorship (not just mentorship) by company leadership of employees who have been \u201cothered\u201d throughout their careers.\u201d \u2013Freya Christian<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a Native American, conservation and environmental awareness is part of our culture as my Great Aunt who worked at Smithsonian Zoo also taught me growing up. Samsung and my colleagues have encouraged and supported me over five years (pre-pandemic) as I volunteered in Africa to support my personal conservation goals.\u00a0I\u2019m also encouraged to share my experiences and thoughts on conservation upon return and during various times on departmental meetings. Samsung\u2019s overall environmental responsibility from energy consumption of our products to our partnership recycling program for mobile phones and consumer electronics are also things I am proud Samsung supports.\u201d \u2013Jasper Morse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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With this opportunity to highlight Samsung\u2019s people, we are both humbled and honored to have been recognized for the progress toward a diverse and inclusive workforce. In 2020, Samsung Electronics America was recognized by Forbes USA as \u201cThe Best Employers for Diversity,\u201d and in 2021 as \u201cBest Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality\u201d by The Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. As we acknowledge all we have accomplished, we are eager to continue setting new goals that pave the path toward a better future for all, beginning with our people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With thousands of employees dispersed throughout the United States, Samsung Electronics America represents a diverse workforce coming together to showcase innovation. While recognizing employees occurs on a daily basis in our workplace culture, Global Diversity Awareness Month provides the opportunity to celebrate the multitude of heritage, backgrounds and life experiences of our people throughout October. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":48344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29719,17571],"tags":[289,24213],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-48333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","category-corporate-workforce","tag-employees","tag-life-at-samsung"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/21165228\/diversity-month-card-3.png","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/21165228\/diversity-month-card-3.png","primary_category":{"term_id":29719,"name":"Corporate","slug":"corporate","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29719,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1037,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/corporate\/","term_path":"corporate"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48333"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=48333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}