In an growth of present programming, Individuals’s Self-Assist Housing (PSHH) has employed Yanitsa Buendía de Llaca as the brand new Range, Fairness, and Inclusion (DEI) advisor.
With a Ph.D in non secular research and experience as a qualitative researcher, Buendía brings theoretical {and professional} data to her new function. Her place is a collaborative effort to make PSHH a extra equitable office and group companion.
Yanitsa mentioned she is ardent about advancing fairness in all elements of the PSHH mission. The work she now facilitates started in 2019 with the formation of the PSHH IDEA (Inclusion, Range, Fairness, and Motion) Fee.
The staff-led effort works to create inclusivity in decision-making, promote alternatives for development, and alter structural lapses associated to fairness, variety, and inclusion.
The IDEA Fee has achieved various targets together with creation of ongoing DEI trainings for employees; a confidential suggestions type; elevated language accessibility; and a company-wide tradition survey for monitoring metrics throughout all PSHH employees.
“We’re thrilled to have a brand new collaborative companion in our journey in the direction of organizational fairness,” mentioned Ken Trigueiro, PSHH CEO/president. “The funding of a full-time advisor implies that we at the moment are higher poised to take motion, change insurance policies by way of a greater targeted fairness lens, and guarantee higher entry to equitable outcomes for all who have interaction with PSHH.”
With roots in Mexico, Buendía has lived in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, and right this moment calls the Central Coast dwelling.
For extra, go to pshhc.org.