Explore the remarkable power of embracing your identity and the priceless insights gained from growing up between worlds as we discuss strategies for driving inclusive practices that shape the workforce, workplace, and marketplace.
Get ready to be equipped to harness your own identity as an inclusive leader and walk away with actionable steps that support navigating a growing diverse world. Sandra Garcia is the CEO of Encounter Your Potential, an award-winning New York City based MWBE firm. She is also the owner of Afro-LatinaBeauty.com, an online destination for stories of Afro-Latinas sharing the same intercultural experience.
Sandra is a devoted Marketer with a strong track record for executing Workforce, Workplace, and Marketplace diversity strategies and programs. Her reputation as a leading expert in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging continues to attract a diverse range of organizations and corporations seeking to achieve diversity and inclusive leadership goals. Her portfolio of clients includes brands such as Google, JP Morgan Chase, Vox Media, Unilever Global, Vevo and Kitsap Credit Union. She has provided her expertise to institutions such as The Howard University School of Divinity, New York Power Authority and New York Urban League, as well as to organizations such as HSBC Bank Toronto and Summit Health/City MD.
In 2022, she was awarded Top Women in Communications in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Ragan Communications and was recognized by the Diversity Action Alliance as a 2022 Distinguished Communicators of Color. In 2019, she received the Digital Diversity Network, Innovation & Inclusion Culture Catalyst Award and was awarded by Latino Leaders Magazine, a Top 25 Future Latino Leader (ages 25-35) in 2012.
Sandra sits on the Board of Directors of the Ithaca College Customer Experience Certificate program, the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications.
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