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How can you create authentic, diverse experiences for your child? How do you help understand and appreciate differences and answer tricky questions about differences? Join us to hear about inclusion, social-emotional learning, and exposing your child to other cultures, holidays, traditions, and people.
Speakers
Claire Goss, Moderator
Manager, Family Education and Resources
Bright Horizons
Claire Goss oversees outreach to Bright Horizons families so they feel included in and supported through their child’s education. She holds a master's degree in child development from Tufts University and has worked for 15 years as a parenting and child development educator, researcher, and writer, while raising her three children of her own. She is also a contributor and moderator for family webinars and the Bright Horizons early education podcast series, “Teach. Play. Love. Parenting Advice for the Early Years.”
Dr. Zabina Bhasin
Founder & CEO
InKidZ
Dr. Zabina Bhasin is a South Asian American Child Psychiatrist, Cornell-educated diversity and inclusion (DEI) expert, and mental health expert who is affectionately called Dr. Zee by many.
She is one mom on a mission to educate our children and change the world through play. It's essential that you know that her work isn't just a project or a trend. As someone who was bullied throughout her life for being different, this is her personal story; as a child psychiatrist, it's her professional work. As someone who feels incredibly called to this - it is her life's mission.
Her expertise and the work to use games, toys, and fun to teach serious topics like diversity, inclusion, belonging, and more have taken her from news media like Good Morning America. Entrepreneur Magazine, Vogue Magazine & most recently celebrated as FORBES NEXT 1000 ENTREPRENEURS.
At In KidZ, creating toys and products designed to celebrate diversity is just the beginning. The company is expanding to broaden its reach through books, television programming, classrooms, and businesses around the country. And we're doing it all with a single goal in mind - to make diversity no longer an issue and the cultural norm.
Yes, our country is in a crisis, but the good news? Not only can we change it for our children, but we can also change it WITH our children, and she is here to prove it.