The Diversity in Wine Leadership Forum brings together leaders of organizations with a core commitment to diversity and equity in the wine industry.
Who we are…
The Diversity in Wine Leadership Forum is a central resource for the wine community to connect and work with organizations with a core commitment to diversity and equity.
Our work includes a biannual leadership forum, regular collaborative and educational seminars, and maintaining a centralized list of organizations.
We recognize that change can only occur over time through intentional, ongoing commitment and collaboration.
Defining Diversity
Diversity occurs through the intersection of gender, race, ability, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, language, and age. Organizations with a commitment to diversity recognize that these social categories create overlapping systems that can disadvantage or discriminate against individuals and groups in differing ways.
Having a core commitment to diversity means seeking to open doors to more people, creating easier access to resources for success, and not only including but welcoming people of diverse backgrounds and experience.
Defining Equity
Organizations with a commitment to equity seek to increase access to resources needed for inclusion and success to more diverse people and groups; uncover and undo root causes of disparity within our industry; promote justice, impartiality, and fairness in these ways; and ultimately seek to include more diversity at the decision-making levels of the wine industry.