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In this informal coffee chat, journalists, public relations practitioners, and marketing and communications professionals will hear concrete steps to incorporate inclusiveness in their writing and speaking, as well as in critical business functions of their work as they improve their own career competencies.<span class=\"m_4119583277285469791x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_4119583277285469791x_MsoNormal\">In a focused conversation between Carol Zimmer Clark, publisher, <em>PRIZM Magazine<\/em> and director of Community Affairs for Equitas Health, and Jaron Terry, PRSA Fellow and president of Jaron Terry Communications, along with other writers from Equitas Health, discussion attendees will understand appropriate terminology and demographics and they explore the current<span class=\"m_4119583277285469791x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>cultural climate. Clark and Terry will discuss<span class=\"m_4119583277285469791x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>what it looks like when journalists and communicators \u201cget it right\u201d in talking to, with and about the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_4119583277285469791x_MsoNormal\">In addition, this broad-ranging conversation will explore\u00a0results-oriented best practices<span class=\"m_4119583277285469791x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>for inclusive communications, including audience identification, media advocacy, and framing, messaging and storytelling, and attendees will learn more about how to hone their own core career competencies such as ethics, collaboration and leadership as they challenge themselves to better understand communities that may differ from their own.<span class=\"m_4119583277285469791x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Session participants will enter the conversation through Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_4119583277285469791x_MsoNormal\">PRSA\u2019s Diversity &amp; Inclusion committee presents this event. 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