Episode 10: Interview with Matthew Yazzie, Organizational and Behavioral Scientist

In this episode I interview Matthew Yazzie who is an Organizational and Behavioral Scientist.  Lean in to understand the challenges that organizations face in implementing DEI initiatives, what we can do to learn more, get involved, and what resources are available.

About the Guest
Matthew Yazzie, Organizational & Behavioral Scientist

Matthew is an organizational and behavioral scientist with seventeen years of diversity, equity and inclusion experience. As a Strategic Director at Collective, Matthew is focused on bringing comprehensive, measurable solutions to the diversity space. He is the Founder & CEO of the Others Project; the first real-time, consolidated, and open-source initiative dedicated to Diversity + Inclusion data.

Matthew’s background includes work as COO at both Jurispect, in regulatory FinTech compliance, and also at FWD.us, working towards intelligent immigration reform. He was on the Global Ethics and Compliance founding team at Google, where he had responsibility for risk assessments, compliance training, and technology procurement. He later worked with the co-founders of Twitter as they created the precursor to Medium and assisted The Kapor Center for Social Impact on several diversity projects.

Matthew has been a featured keynote speaker for NASA, American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), the United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) annual conference, Culture Amp’s 2019 Culture First Summit, and SaaStr 2019 — the largest B2B conference in the world. Matthew has spoken on diversity and corporate culture issues and has been interviewed by Harvard Business Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Buzzfeed News, CNBC, and The Telegraph.

Matthew currently serves as an Advisor to the Board for Project Include, a non-profit that uses data and advocacy to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech industry. Matthew also serves as an Advisor to Spot, a company creating AI reporting tools that makes it safer for employees to speak up on issues of harassment and discrimination. He also serves as an Advisor for Diversity & Inclusion Programs for Women 2.0, a company encouraging direct action around gender equity and equality.

About the Host
Kerry Rosado, Founder & Principal DEI Consultant
Dyvergent Consulting Group, LLC - www.dyvergentcg.com

Kerry is a Founder and Principal Diversity Consultant for Dyvergent Consulting Group, LLC. An elected official serving as a school board trustee with 7 years of diversity and inclusion experience. A proud mother of two boys with autism and a neurodiversity advocate.  A Latina in Tech that has worked at top tech companies such as Microsoft and Amazon to advocate for diversity and inclusion to empower women and minorities.​

Former board member for People Acting in Community Together (PACT), where she empowered the community to solve social issues related to housing, immigration, education, and social justice. Led community rallies to advocate for equitable education for all. Mentored youth through Google's CS First Program and Microsoft TEALS Program, teaching computer science fundamentals. Led and won hackathons at Women Who Code Silicon Valley, a non profit dedicated to helping women excel in technology.

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