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LGBT Parenting and the impact of Covid-19 on your household

Join in to hear stories of LGBTQ+ families and useful parenting tips. We will also explore how educating children in school can help promote acceptance at a young age. 

We will also discuss how COVID-19 is causing increased tension for LGBTQ+ co-parents across the globe, as they contend with child arrangements such as contact and home-schooling whilst managing work issues and financial security.

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(To qualify, you must register and attend a minimum of 5 webinars during the WorkPride Global Conference.)

Speakers:

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    Sue Sanders
    Sue Sanders
    Chair
    SCHOOLS OUT UK
    I am Professor Emeritus of the Harvey Milk Institute, the founder of LGBT History Month UK and the website The Classroom which has over 100 lesson plans that usulaise LGBT people, issues and concepts across the curriculum, for all ages and adheres to the national curriculum. My passion is to educate OUT prejudice and enable LGBT+ people in all their diversity to be visible safe and proud. I am an out and proud lesbian activist who been around for over 40 years! I am the chair of Schools OUT UK a charity that organises LGBT+ History Month UK, The Classroom and the international LGBT History Festival OUTing the Past. I am also a member of the Independent Advisory Group to the Government on Hate Crime.
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    Kryss Shane, MS, MSW, LSW, LMSW
    Kryss Shane, MS, MSW, LSW, LMSW
    Leading LGBT Expert
    ThisIsKryss.com
    Named by The New York Times and many national and international platforms as America's go-to Leading LGBT Expert, Kryss Shane, MS, MSW, LSW, LMSW (she/her) has 25+ years of experience guiding the world's top leaders in business, education, and community via individual, small group, and full-staff trainings. She is known for making each organization's specific Diversity and Inclusion needs become more manageable, approachable, and actionable. This includes physical spaces, hiring practices, policies/procedures, and more. Kryss has two Master’s degrees, two licenses to practice mental healthcare, and she is currently working toward her PhD while shaping the minds of learners as a Lecturer at Columbia University and an Adjunct Professor at Brandman University. She is also the author of "The Educator's Guide to LGBT+ Inclusion," the first book of its kind to guide educators, administrators, and school staff to become able and empowered to make their schools more LGBT+ inclusive.
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    Chloë Davies
    Chloë Davies
    Founder & CEO
    It Takes A Village Collective
    Chloe Davies is an award winning founder, creative, a passionate social impact consultant, chef, and entrepreneur who has dedicated much of her 20+ year career campaigning for inclusion and equality in all spaces, whether in-house at agency level, corporate organisations or through wider community engagement. With over 15 years of experience in retail, artist management, and PR, Chloe has honed her expertise in leadership, social impact and inclusive representation. Her work centres around authentic storytelling, creating spaces of belonging, mental health & well-being, self-empowerment, culture change and workplace advocacy. Simply put, she is trying to change the world for the better. In April 2023 she founded ‘It Takes A Village’ - a global collective for Black women in advertising, media, marketing and comms who's mission is to celebrate & champion them, for their talents to be seen, heard & amplified and together shape the collective industries into a space where Black women can have agency and succeed.
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    Laura-Rose Thorogood
    Laura-Rose Thorogood
    Founder/ Strategic Account Director
    THE LGBT Mummies Tribe / REDBOX GROUP
    My name is Laura-Rose & I am a Strategic Account Director for REDBOX GROUP a BCORP certified supplies business & I manage UK wide multi-cited client accounts & new business . I am also Founder of 'The LGBT Mummies Tribe' . a global organization who’s sole purpose is to ‘Educate, Share, & Celebrate’ LGBT+ women & people worldwide on the path to motherhood or parenthood. We act as a central point of support & a safe haven through providing information, guidance & knowledge on the available routes to starting a family through our website & social channels. From educational resources, support groups & services, information on charities, LGBT+ brands, & sharing your journeys with our community to our annual UK ‘Meets’ where families come together to celebrate our community, make friends & share their experiences. Whether you are thinking of starting a family or have children already by fertility treatment, surrogacy, adoption, fostering, as a single parent, co-parent or a step parent, all are welcome. We are passionate about equality are currently in talks with the Government, work directly with the NHSE/I, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, Royal College of Midwives & other UK governing bodies& organizations. We work with them to bring policy change & support to ensure equality & inclusivity to LGBT+ people & their children through fertility, healthcare & associated services. I am also a Stakeholder on the NHS Maternity Transformation Council for Better Births, the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists ‘Women’s Voices Involvement Panel’, Mid & South Essex Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership Co-Vice Chair, RCOG NMPA Women & Families Involvement Group, providing my knowledge & experience of the LGBT+ community we support & also my own lived experience. I am regularly asked to present or train organizations in how to be inclusive & support LGBT+ people & their families across maternity, healthcare & society. My wife & I are also Ambassadors for The Centre for Reproductive & Genetic Health supporting LGBT+ parents through their fertility treatment at the clinic. We have worked with Stonewall as part of their 30th Anniversary campaign & have also been personally invited to Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister & have had multiple articles & interviews published about the work we do. We also partner with worldwide clinics, sperm banks & other organizations to provide education & information to our community. Of late we have partnered or worked with the Met Police, GLAAD, Tommy's, Philips (globally), Pregnancy+ App, Maternal Mental Health Alliance, Silver Cross, Tommee Tippee. I also work as a Speaker & writer & have presented & spoken at events, summits & meetings for many of the above organizations, an regularly am invited to speak on podcasts & interviewed for media outlets & write articles for organizations regarding the work we do & our lived experience, our expertise. We work tirelessly to inspire LGBT+ women & people on their quest to motherhood or parenthood, whilst working to ‘usualize’ our families in the media & creating a more inclusive future for our children, by providing visibility of our families, creating change & equality.
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    Ann Marie Docherty
    Ann Marie Docherty
    Deputy Centre Director
    JLL
    I am the Deputy Centre Director, for JLL managing a large shopping centre on the south coast of England, main responsibilities are for security, cleaning, health & safety, staff welfare, budgets and budget setting and the day to day running of the shopping centre. JLL have been hugely supportive of me both in my professional life and in my personnel life. I am originally from Glasgow, I visited Brighton for the weekend, and never left, that was 26years ago, I fell in love with the cosmopolitan life style, the ability to live my life as who I am, and not having to hide my sexuality was and still is liberating, not forgetting the much better weather.
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    Natasha Walker
    Natasha Walker
    Senior Pricing Analyst
    RS Group
    I have worked with RS for 16 years in various roles through Customer Service to Product Management and now my current role, Senior Pricing Analyst. I have been pricing in RS for 8 years, and to date I am responsible for the Connectors portfolio that RS offer.
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