Rare with Google Leadership Academy – ADCOLOR Los Angeles

Since its foundation in 2017, Semi Permanent has produced Google’s global diversity, equity and inclusion initiative Rare with Google. Rare's evolving program of talks, workshops, mentorship opportunities and research projects are designed to increase DEI initiatives both internally at Google and within the creative industries at large. Rare’s vision of diversity spans race, gender, sexuality, neurodiversity and physical ability.

As the Executive Producer for Semi Permanent I produced the Rare with Google program from 2021- 22. In November of 2022, Rare with Google hosted ADCOLOR Leaders, a 2-day leadership program for 40 top corporate executives from across the US, as a part of the ADCOLOR conference held in Los Angeles. 

Modular sofas were configured to exist in both amphitheatre and collaborative arrangements depending on the session type. We included a library of inspiring reading materials curated by LA-based, Black and woman-owned bookshop Reparations Club. Physical materials and custom swag (including notebooks, stationary, and field guides) gave each delegate space for their own reflection. Plus we threw in plenty of charging stations (both coffee and electricity) and blank wall space for artist-in-residence Reggie Black to fill with ideas and thoughts over the two-day event.

I produced the event in Los Angeles managing the venue, tech requirements, catering, speaker travel and logistics etc.