Leveraging Fair Chance Hiring to Build an Inclusive Green Economy

Join the LA County Fair Chance Hiring coalition for a conversation about the benefits of modernizing current hiring practices.

Join the LA County Fair Chance Hiring coalition, and our esteemed guests, for a two-panel conversation about modernizing current hiring practices, challenging stigmas around the reentry population, building a clean energy/tech workforce, and creating economic opportunities that benefit us all.

Remarks by:

Senators Kevin de León and Maria Elena Durazo

Keynote Speaker:

Jeffrey Korzenik, Chief Investment Strategist, Fifth Third Bank

Panel Discussions:

Employers Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

Danielle Ferguson, Director of Workforce Development at LACI

-Chris Hannan, Council Representative, Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building Trades

-Joanne Peterson, Chief of Human Capital & Development, LA Metro

-Steven Simon, Program Analyst, Worker Education & Resource Center (WERC)

Business Benefits of Fair Chance Hiring

Moderators, Jessica Kim, Senior Director of Workforce Development at LAEDC

-JoAnn Covington, Chief Legal Officer & Head of Government Relations, Proterra

-Ken Wiseman, Chief Workforce Development Officer, AMS Fulfillment

-Joe Nickson, Co-founder, Concreates

Organizer Description:

The Countywide Fair Chance Hiring campaign is designed to raise awareness among businesses of the benefits of adopting Fair Chance Hiring practices. The County also offers incentives to businesses that hire justice-involved individuals in the form of training reimbursements and tax credits. Businesses who take the Fair Chance Hiring Pledge will be assigned a case representative and receive information on how to find qualified justice-involved individuals to fill vacant jobs.

Thank you to our supporter the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI).