Navigating Equity and Advertising Controversies

Meeker Guerrier, Commentator at Noovo and RDS, and Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance.

• Quebec’s Minister Responsible for the Fight Against Racism, Christopher Skeete, calls the sentencing that took into consideration the realities of systemic racism that racialized criminals face as a “sad first”.
• Britain’s ad watchdog has banned two Zara ads for showing models that appeared “unhealthily thin.” 
• Now over on this side of the Atlantic, the advertising uproar has been over the 'Sydney Sweeney has great jeans' ad campaign by American Eagle.