Join us for a conversation on the importance of having Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in education and corporate America with Tamika Otis, Corporate Responsibility Officer and Community Relations Manager for KeyBank, and Dr. Barbara Logan Smith, VP and Chief Equity and Belonging Leader at Teach for America. The event will be moderated by Karen Spencer Kelly, Esq., creator of the Diversity and Inclusion 3.0 Initiative.
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Tamika Otis is Corporate Responsibility Officer and Community Relations Manager for the Capital Region and Central New York markets of KeyBank and is responsible for establishing and executing KeyBank’s community engagement strategy and the deployment of charitable funding from KeyBank Foundation to local non-profit organizations.
A multipreneur, author, equity warrior and atmosphere shifter, Tamika’s mission is to empower people to live their best lives. Among numerous enterprises she had a hand in forming, Tamika’s most prized venture is the consulting firm she founded, KABOD Consulting Group LLC, a full-service consulting agency that takes a holistic approach to organizational training and development including DEIB, Trauma Informed Care, EQ, Human-Centered Approach and more.
Tamika has more than 20 years of experience in project management and the application of DEI and trauma informed practices and procedures within government, corporate and nonprofit entities. She specializes in identifying gaps that create inequities within organizations and with a lens of equity and inclusion, transforms them for the better. Tamika is also Co-Founder of the Black Women Give Foundation based in Philadelphia, PA.
She is the proud mom of two sons, Christian, 20 and Braylon, 14 and a sweet Goldendoodle puppy named “Brix”. She enjoys writing, traveling and cooking in her spare time.
With over 25 years as a dedicated teacher, administrator and master trainer, Dr. Barbara Logan Smith has worked to build capacity in over 20,000 educators, business executives, and non-profit leaders on a national scale and to ensure the achievement of educational equity, excellence, and access for all children. With previous service as Vice President of the Efficacy Institute, and Executive Director of Teach For America’s Greater Delta region of Mississippi and Arkansas, Dr. Logan Smith currently works in the educational non-profit sector as the Chief of Equity and Belonging at Teach For America. Focused on illuminating brilliance, her work centers on increasing equity, belonging, and grace in the world. She resides with her husband, Dr. Chris Smith, in Chicago, IL.
Karen Spencer Kelly has been an attorney for over thirty years. She serves as Senior Counsel at Clark Hill, PLC. Her current work focuses on diversity and inclusion auditing, conflict investigation and resolution, and conducting training in diversity and inclusion, unconscious bias and belonging.
Kelly created the Diversity and Inclusion 3.0 Initiative to educate organizations and their employees about using diversity to create superior products and services as well as improving the work culture and environment.
Prior to her current practice, the scope of her work included practicing in the areas of civil litigation (trial and appellate); government affairs and municipal finance; serving as Chief Counsel to the Treasurer of Pennsylvania (overseeing the legal affairs of the Treasury Department and its 400+ employees); drafting legal opinions for state and local government agencies; and advising institutions, labor unions, universities, hospitals and political candidates on a variety of exigent issues. Kelly was also outside counsel to several privately held companies, advising on all aspects of their businesses. She also served as an independent investigator of discrimination claims.
Kelly earned her BA, cum laude, from Harvard College. She received her Juris Doctorate from the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.
Kelly has served on numerous non-profit boards. Inter alia, she was a Radcliffe Trustee, a member of the Chestnut Hill College Board of Directors, chairwoman of the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation and the first female African-American president of the world-wide Harvard Alumni Association.
She lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia.