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Our Story

Founded in the Spring of 2020,  Equity in Lighting's (EIL) goal is to increase the diversity within the lighting community of NYC so it may better reflect the diversity of our country through the tools of outreach, educational events, and industry policy. 

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Our Partners

In partnership with the DLF NY, IALD NY, IES NYC, Parsons Lighting, NACLIQ, and WILD NYC, the EIL has tasked each of their partners to create 3-4 events that focus on diversity within their niche.  The goal of these events is to show lighting through different perspectives so that we may become better designers, colleagues, and human beings.

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The Baseline

The first initiative of EIL was to conduct a Diversity Baseline Survey for 2020. The survey had over 350 submissions and was monumental for ELD NYC's strategic plan to increase our community's diversity.

Click here to dive into the data...

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Knowledge of Lighting Industry

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Personal Finances

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Education

Our Current Focus

Currently, EIL has focused its efforts on removing the largest barriers of entry into the lighting community for underprivileged and marginalized communities. 

 

The four largest barriers to entry into the lighting industry have been defined to be Lack of Knowledge of the Lighting Industry, Personal Finances, Sponsorship, and Education.

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Education
Policy
Outreach
Plan of Attack

The EIL will focus on removing the top four barriers to entry with a mash of education, outreach, and policy within the NYC community.

 

With our partners, the EIL hopes to have 12-16 educational events and partner with six grade schools for presentations & workshops within 2021. 

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Ways to Get Involved
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K-12 Presentations

Help introduce students from K-12 what it means to work in the lighting industry. We need presenters, school relations, product donations and more!

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Principal Round Table

How can the principals at firms help remove the barriers into the lighting industry? We need help recruiting principals, developing the curriculum and topic leaders. 

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Data Collection

The Baseline survey is only the beginning. Help evolve the survey so we can ask the right questions, the right way.

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Still Unsure?

If none of the committees work for you? Let us know how you want to help EIL!

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K-12 Workshop

Work with students from K-12 to introduce them to lighting design through hands on activities. We need workshop volunteers, after school program assistants, and more!

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Needs Based Scholarship

There is currently only one needs based scholarship to help students pay for their lighting education. Our team needs help sourcing funding, and developing scholarships.

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Social Media

From Tweets to TicToks, we need help communicating our journey. We have lots of content to get across and we need you to help shape it. 

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Still Unsure?

If none of the committees work for you? Let us know how you want to help EIL!

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Post Secondary Presentations

Speak to post-graduate students in  about the lighting industry and how they can pursue it as a career. We need presenters and university & college introductions. 

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Equity Questionaire

Help create an industry diversity questionnaire to support minorities within our community.

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Still Unsure?

If none of the committees work for you? Let us know how you want to help EIL!

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Still Unsure?

If none of the committees work for you? Let us know how you want to help EIL!

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