Infotech hosted our first Reverse Town Hall to provide a forum for Infotech’s Black/African-American family members to share their viewpoints and, poignantly, their personal experiences with racism and discrimination.

The issue featured new opportunities for growth and development in the DE&I space, including the introduction of Infotech’s Day of Educational Investment and our strengthened philanthropic focus on the East Gainesville community.

This special meeting provided an opportunity to ask questions, listen and learn from our Black/African-American family members.

All Infotech employees completed a LinkedIn Learning Course that provided skills and tactics for inclusive conversations with our Infotech family members.

Newly formed, the Committee for Diversity and Inclusion launched recruitment efforts in August 2020 and featured the opportunity in the August Crane.

To make it easier for employees to celebrate the days most meaningful to them, Infotech introduced the Floating Holiday for 2021. The new benefit was officially announced in the September Crane.

The CDI asked Infotechers to share what this observance meant to them. We heard personal anecdotes, favorite recipes, family or cultural traditions and oral histories handed down across generations.

This included Compassionate Communication and Transgender & Nonbinary Training. The process to add pronouns to UltiPro, Zoom, Slack and email began.

Employees participated in a D&I Workshop and Community Conversations for Inclusive Excellence. A Kwanzaa presentation was created to celebrate and educate on the holiday.

CDI and leadership began discussions to build and introduce Gender Neutral bathrooms at Infotech HQ.

Events included History of Racial Violence in Florida, African-American Professionals in Gainesville and Soulful Cooking with Pat.

Infotech sponsored the Alachua Community Remembrance Project.

Ale Nunez and Cynthia Allen were interviewed for a great local spotlight.

We celebrated Chinese New Year with a Slack post celebration.

The CDI celebrated International Women’s Day with an inspiring panel that allowed for a continued conversation of how we can all choose to challenge biases and misconceptions in the interest of creating a more inclusive and gender-equal world.

The site shares what we had been doing internally to advance our DE&I efforts with our external audience – because we want everyone to see themselves here.

The Diversity Month Celebration launched in Slack and continued throughout April.

Expanded benefits plan to include critical services supporting fertility solutions, gender affirmation, holistic wellness and more.