The Scripps Approach: Building Awareness of the Importance of EDI in Our Workplaces and Communities

Danyelle S.T. Wright, is vice president, employment and labor law, and chief diversity officer for The E.W. Scripps Company. Wright leads Scripps’ enterprise-wide diversity and inclusion strategies. She works closely with the company’s human resources leadership to bring these strategies to life and provides guidance to the company’s senior management on employment and labor practices.  Wright also serves as head of the employment and labor group for the company. Before joining Scripps in 2015, Wright served as partner with a Dayton, Ohio-based law firm. She received her bachelor’s degree in government and Africana studies from Cornell University and her doctorate in law from The Ohio State University.

Beth Welter is the vice president of internal communications for The E.W. Scripps Company, where she leads strategies for employee communications, crisis communications and change management. She counsels leaders on strategic communication planning, stakeholder buy-in and message development, while leading change management efforts for mergers and acquisitions and for change initiatives in Scripps’ TV stations and other businesses. She and her team develop proactive communications to promote programs and initiatives and build culture through storytelling. Prior to Scripps, she was manager of associate communications for Kroger and assistant vice president and internal communications manager for Fifth Third Bank.

As the Strategic Program Manager for Ragan Communications, Jorgensen is responsible for creating content and developing speaker line-ups for webinars, workshops and conferences in the areas of Communications, Crisis Management, Media Relations, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Employee Wellness. She has more than 20 years of experience in the conference and events industry, spanning content, program production, operations, sales and marketing through her work with organizations across North America, the Caribbean and Europe. In recent years, she brought her considerable expertise of building and starting new conferences, product lines, opening new regions and offices to senior-level positions with organizations like: M&A Advisor, Public Sector Network, EUCI, Momentum Events, IQPC, The Connex Group, Argyle Executive Forum, ISG, and Marcus Evans. She was also the Co-Founder and Managing Director for MSE Partners where she coined the phrase “Eliminating the Conference Coma,” which has now become her event mantra. She is also a member of Ragan Communications’ DEI Committee.