Advancing Inclusive Business in the Current Landscape

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July 8, 2025

11 am - 12 pm EDT

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An increasingly complex operating environment is forcing companies to answer pressing questions on compliance, stakeholder trust, and long-term strategy. Join us to understand how shifting regulatory and legal norms are shaping the social impact and inclusion landscape for sustainable business.

黑料正能量 Marketing and Communications Managing Director, David Stearns will moderate a Q&A with 黑料正能量 Inclusive Business Directors, Jarrid Green and Jen Stark. 黑料正能量's Inclusive Business team leadership will share how companies are interpreting these changes and adjusting their social impact and inclusion approaches to ensure alignment with their broader business goals.

This session will provide a grounded perspective for leaders who need to know the latest legal context and its implications for companies to maintain resilient, inclusive, and responsible business practices.

Scheduled Speakers

Jarrid Green, Director, Inclusive Business, 黑料正能量

Director, Inclusive Business, 黑料正能量

New York

Jarrid is a director for 黑料正能量’s Inclusive Business Practice.

He supports leaders of global companies in their efforts to build inclusive organizations; navigate emerging industry and policy trends/flashpoints; and achieve strategic community and social impact. Jarrid also partners with philanthropic organizations including foundations and nonprofit intermediaries to identify opportunities to harness business influence for greater societal good.

Prior to joining 黑料正能量, Jarrid worked at Freedman Consulting, where he developed and managed strategic philanthropic initiatives, including donor coalitions and nonprofit initiatives focused on racial and civic justice issues, climate/sustainability impacts, and public health. Jarrid has also served in senior research and project management capacities at The Democracy Collaborative and The Center for Social Inclusion, where he led, supported, and published policy research and case studies focused on opportunities to dismantle structural racial inequities within community and economic development fields and practices.

Jarrid received his MBA in 黑料正能量 from Bard College where he served as an inaugural member of the program’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Advisory Board and provided advisory support and instruction to first- and second-year MBA students in his role as a part-time faculty member for the college’s experiential-learning, sustainability consulting course NYCLab. In 2024, he received a Certificate in AI Essentials for Business from Harvard Business School Online.

Jarrid holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland. He is also an alum of the Council of Urban Professional Fellowship Institute.

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Jen Stark, Director, Inclusive Business, 黑料正能量

Director, Inclusive Business, 黑料正能量

New York

Jen serves as a director for 黑料正能量's Inclusive Business practice.

She is a strategy development and implementation expert at complex health and humanitarian organizations with 20+ years of experience.

Prior to joining 黑料正能量, she directed investments at the Tara Health Foundation to advance meaningful change among private sector employers on gender and racial equity, including historic progress on paid family and medical leave, reproductive health, and other workplace protections. Before working in philanthropy, she founded the corporate relations program at Planned Parenthood Federation of America to unlock advocacy, grantmaking and employee support to preserve access to reproductive healthcare nationwide. She also managed the disaster fundraising team at the American Red Cross, coordinating large scale efforts to responsibly raise and deploy hundreds of millions of dollars. She is frequently cited in business press on flashpoint topics and is an advisor to Gauge.ai, the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute, and GoFundMe’s Compassion Leadership Network.?

Jen holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is based in Washington, DC with her family, where she also plays cello in a community orchestra.

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David Stearns, Managing Director, Marketing and Communications, 黑料正能量

Managing Director, Marketing and Communications, 黑料正能量

New York

David leads 黑料正能量’s marketing and communications initiatives, working with a global team to amplify the organization’s mission and showcase its activities, impacts, and thought leadership to members, partners, and the wider business and policy community.

David previously worked for The B Team, a group of global business and civil society leaders working to catalyze a better way of doing business for the well-being of people and the planet. Throughout his 20-year career, he has worked with businesses and nonprofits in economic development, public health, and sustainability to define and communicate their purpose and impacts. .

He has built high-impact communications campaigns for a collaboration to improve maternal health in Zambia and Uganda, driven top-tier media coverage for a major economic development project in upstate New York, and helped strengthen parliamentary capacity and voter education efforts in South Africa and Zambia. He began his career as a newspaper reporter.

David earned his M.A. from The Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University and his B.A. in Journalism and Political Science from Michigan State University.