Blueprint: Diversity Resources

By: Nicole Toloczko

Welcome to the Blueprint for all your tips, tricks, and advertising needs. In honor of Juneteenth, we wanted to provide some diversity resources in the advertising industry. Be sure to listen to the Blueprint podcast, co-hosted by Juan Camargo and Nicole Toloczko, on Spotify, iTunes, or anywhere you listen to your podcasts to learn more about each resource.

Groups

  • AMA: DEI Task Force
  • AMA: DEI Advisory Group
  • ADCOLOR
  • Women Who Create
  • c0ffe3

Mentorship

  • Episode 38: Mo Osunbor, Creator of Linkit.Black
  • Episode 104: Kayla Griffis, The Strategic Change Agent
  • Episode 114: Professor Shanita Baraka Akintonde
    • On the DEI Advisory Group
  • We Are Next: Coffee at a Distance
  • We Are Next: International Students Support Network
  • Linkit.Black
  • Blacks Who Design
  • Latinxs Who Design
  • Women Who Design
  • Women Who Create | Creative Women of Color Database
  • Rememory Directory

Learn

  • AMA: DEI Panel
  • AMA: JPP&M Articles Addressing Race, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • AMA: Mosaic 10
  • @WitchaBlackAds (Instagram and Podcast)
  • Black Speakers Collection
  • See In Black
  • Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry

Awards and Scholarships

  • AAF: Most Promising Multicultural Students (MPMS)
  • 4A’s: Multicultural Advertising Internship Program (MAIP)
  • AMA: Valuing Diversity Ph.D. Scholarship