CMF’s Now & Next on HireBIPOC.ca’s first year

To mark the first launch anniversary of HireBIPOC.ca, the Canada Media Fund’s blog Now & Next featured a story on the work achieved in the platform’s first year, as well as the challenges ahead.

Here’s an excerpt:

While encouraging and normalizing the hiring of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour is a goal, it is primarily about recognizing the talent and professionalism of thousands of people who have systematically been marginalized.

BIPOC TV Board member Judy Lung, who is also Vice-President of Communications and Marketing at Touchwood PR, explains: “This was never simply about creating an online roster but instead, conceived as an industry-wide initiative to showcase the incredible talent here in Canada that has been consistently overlooked and shut out in our current system, and to rethink and re-haul hiring practices to be more inclusive and equitable going forward.”