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SHE, HER | AGE 36
JAMIE

BERGERON

SOCIAL JUSTICE & INCLUSION
PRACTITIONER AND TRAINER,
DEI CENTER OF EXCELLENCE AT
EY (AMERICAS)

In our movement for equity and justice,
it is key to stay inspired, resilient and
healthy. So many people I admire and
respect haven’t been able to sustain
themselves or their motivation, and
for good reasons. It can be easy to lose
vision for a future where we all have
what’s needed to thrive and survive.
I’m committed to building coalitions
that support individual people and our
collective vision for a different, safer
and more just, world. Visions become
plans, plans become action and action
leads to the change we’re working so CREDIT: ©2020 KATHERINE MARKS
CREDIT: ERIKA BELSAAS PHOTOGRAPHY
hard to make real for queer and trans
people.
SHE, HER | AGE 33 HE, HIM | AGE 39
ERIKA SHAMEEK

BELSAAS BOSE

EXPERIENCED ANALYTICAL GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FELLOW
CHEMIST, MERCK & LEAD FOR BUSINESS
ENGAGEMENT, WORLD
I only hope to leave behind a world ECONOMIC FORUM
that is better for people of all identities As a member of the board of directors at
to live in. I volunteer with youth, and GLAAD, I consider my primary respon-
many of them are terrified or hopeless sibility to uplift the voices and stories of
at the ever-changing world around marginalized LGBTQ people around the
them. Anti-LGBTQ+ laws and rallies, world. I believe the responsibility we
global climate change and economic share as a human race is to protect and
inequity affect them all and will safeguard our planet from impending
continue to do so long after I pass. It destruction due to climate change.
is our duty to educate ourselves and In that regard, I work at the World
those around us, fix what we can and Economic Forum with the private sector
equip our future leaders to deal with to facilitate a green energy transition,
the things we cannot. I only hope I can by leveraging our First Movers Coa-
make enough of a difference.
lition. Finally, I also feel responsible
for closing the inequity in our society
and creating pathways for economic
mobility for people of color.
CREDIT: THAIS DE MARCO MAPSTONE,
TDM PHOTOGRAPHY
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