Allyship & Action: State of Equity Summit

Agency: Palette Group

Date: December 2022

Event Type: Virtual Summit

Role: Co-Producer & Programming Director

Returning for their 3rd annual summit, Palette Group hosted this summit for the first time virtually to center conversations and supply people with resources, tools, support and scale to make the advertising industry a more inclusive and equitable place. This one-day summit brought out over 400+ attendees and 16 speakers, including a keynote by writer, activist, & comedian Baratunde Thurston (host of PBS American Outdoors) and a performance by writer and storyteller Joél Leon. All archived programming can be viewed here.

Production and Programming included:

• Strategy concept and collaboration

• Speaker curation, outreach, and management

• Summit topics, themes, and copy curation

• Rehearsal management

• Summit promotional materials copywriting

• Technical Run-of-Show management

• Speaker negotiations

• Budget maintenance support

• Day of chat moderator