Industry Diversity, Progress and the Next Steps Forward: A Roundtable Discussion (Video)

Though representation has continued to improve in recent years from film and television to advertising and corporate America there is still a long way to go for that representation to be proportionate with the Black US population quotIn the African American community we39re not abreast to a lot of those opportunitiesquot says Karrington Symonds Vice President of Content and Programming at HBCU Go quotAs we work with HBCUs students don39t hear about the same opportunities or get these chances to showcase what they can do The reality is we39re getting the knowledge in terms of how to produce content But it means nothing if you can39t get past the front door You have to be given the access and the opportunity to show the talent level that you have That39s all you39re asking forquotJ Bernard Calloway a film television and Broadway actor shares that while he enjoyed his time at HBCU Alabama State University he still noticed that other universities and theater programs had advantages in place that HBCUs did not quotUniversities such as NYU Yale Carnegie Mellon have a showcase at the end of their tenure where they go to a major city like New York LA or Chicago and showcase the class so that producers and casting directors can see their worksquot he explained quotA lot of this is not available to these institutionsquotLooking at improving representation from a recruitment standpoint in the media advertising and marketing communities Aaron Finkelstein Head of Recruitment at Ampersand says quotThe challenge in our industry is if you look at the executive level unfortunately that doesn39t always represent the entrylevel talent in our industry As executives there is a lot of pressure to hit KPIs and business goals and the amount of risk someone is willing to take in hiring someone with transferable skill is being weighed out We need to do a better job at taking that risk in bringing folks who haven39t had that opportunity to enter itquotYou can watch the rest of this roundtable conversation above or listen wherever you download your podcasts including Audacy iHeartRadio Spotify Apple GooglePodcasts Pandora Stitcher and TuneInClick the social buttons to share this story with colleagues and friendsThe opinions expressed here are the author39s views and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet

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