Each month, senior leaders participate in an Affinity Group spotlight to ensure leadership maintains their understanding of the necessity and importance of each Affinity Group to RDI’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. This June, RDI Pride was the Affinity Group Spotlight. Ashley Snowden (RDI Pride, Executive Chair), Stephanie O’Ryan (ELL Well Director, RDI Latonia), Andy McCarthy (Senior Director, Culture & Retention), and Katrina Pankuch (Director, Talent Acquisition & Marketing) sat down for a roundtable discussion of their key takeaways, some as members of the LGBTQIA+ community and others as allies. 

One of the biggest takeaways from Andy hit the nail on the head for what RDI’s affinity groups aim to do: he learned “how to educate my children to be inclusive and kind, and how to ignore media stereotyping of all people, but especially the LGBTQIA+ community….Education is the biggest thing, and involvement.” We love an ally.