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News & Updates
Beyond Tropes, Tokenism and Talk
April 24th, 2024
Michelle Lee, Justin Senior, Aleena Mazhar and Gavin Barrett bring over 150 participants and attendees together to reimagine the strategist’s toolkit to be more inclusive of the BIPOC community.
Read & DownloadVisible & Vocal - The Canadian BIPOC Advertising & Marketing Study
February 4th, 2021
Chasson Gracie, Julian Franklin, and Joshua Richards take the over 350 attendees through the data collected from the inaugural Visible & Vocal study.
Watch & DownloadThe Garden: 2020 The Game
October 23, 2020
Joshua Richards shares some thoughts on the The Garden Agency, the industry and the opportunity for change.
Read the LinkedIn articleAnd where are the public voices of the creators? You are all seniors in this industry, some of you posted black squares and BLM donation receipts, some of you are teachers at the Ad schools we recruit from, you have a responsibility here. You can't take credit when you think it's an award winning idea, but be silent when it's causing pain.
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