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Month: March 2024

Profiles of Diversity -:- Khushi Bhatnagar

Khushi Bhatnagar Deputy Speaker Khushi Bhatnagar is a Canadian recent grad who completed a Postgraduate certificate in Project Management at Sheridan College. She is a talented singer of classical Indian music, a badminton player, and a fitness enthusiast. She is also a time management expert, having juggled four jobs while maintaining a 3.5 GPA. She uses a notebook and Google Keep to organize her tasks and goals.

Khushi has a passion for academic integrity and innovation. She worked as a strategist for the Academic Integrity Office at Sheridan, where she created a project management system using Teams Planner. She was part of the most diverse team in the office, with eight members from different backgrounds and skill levels. She received positive feedback from her coworkers and manager for her contribution and performance.

Khushi is a fan of BTS, a popular Korean pop group. She chose their song Love Myself as her personal anthem, because she wants to spread happiness and confidence to everyone. She has a collaborative and transparent management style, and values listening to her team members and finding the best solutions for them. She is interested in working in the non-profit sector, and has some experience in fundraising from her previous projects in India.

Profiles of Diversity -:- Harneet Barmy

Harneet Barmy - Chief Privacy Officer Harneet Barmy is a Canadian IT professional and a computer science professor at Durham College. He worked as a senior systems analyst for the Government of Canada, where he helped with adopting cloud infrastructure and minimizing disruption to the business. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, working as an Architect, consultant, and trainer. He is also the co-founder and editor of the Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching.

Harneet Barmy’s greatest strength is his humility and willingness to help others. He loves to answer Technical questions on websites like Google, Quora and to teach and mentor his former students. He is also an organized and efficient worker, who uses calendars, SharePoint, Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Azure and Microsoft 365 to manage his tasks and meetings. He is easy to work with, reliable, and self-sufficient, as his coworkers and managers would attest.

Harneet Barmy is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion, and has been involved in several initiatives to promote these values in his professional and personal settings. He was inspired by a message he received from a local charity that provides scholarships and antiracist, character-building, and leadership programming to youth in the Greater Toronto/Hamilton Area. He joined J2DW as a board member, hoping to make a difference and support his wife, who faces challenges in her workplace due to the lack of diversity. He hopes to see more progress and impact from this organization in the next five years, and is eager to contribute his skills and expertise to this cause. He has never tried fundraising before, but is willing to learn and help.

Social Media for Social Justice: How Brands Can Promote EDI Online

As we have progressed in society, the concept of technology has begun to branch away from just a luxury that the wealthy can afford and head towards a common, everyday tool. With phones no longer being simply used for their calling feature, what it means to communicate has transformed into something more interactive, seemingly social, yet unnaturally distant all the same. Social media has become a strong force as a platform for creating and sharing content that promotes expression, facilitates communication, shares knowledge and experiences, and can bring people together just as easily as it can tear them apart.

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