Doing the Work III: Moving the conversation onwards What are you doing? You’ve been reading and watching anti-racist resources and perhaps you feel like you get it. But how do we bring our anti-racism into our workplace, classroom or family dinner table? What are actions we can do together and in our communities? This coming ... Read more
Join us every Friday for lunch, to connect and share over food. Community chef Julie Pavola will be serving a Harvest Soup with roasted butternut squash, apples and feta cheese. We will have kale salad with pumpkin seeds, cranberries, walnuts and freshly baked sourdough bread to nourish us after the long week. This event is ... Read more
For this Women in Leadership session, join us to hear Chisom Udeze and Sarah Przedpelska discuss Shine Theory. Shine Theory, developed by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, is described as the practice of mutual investment in each other. Shine Theory represents an intentional commitment to collaborate with and support each other instead of competing with ... Read more
Join us every Friday for lunch, to connect and share over food. Community chef Ampy Basa will be serving a Roasted Pumpkin Curry with green beans, paprika, kale and aubergine, served with toasted coconut rice. This event is free for HerSpace Members. Cost: NOK150 Max attendees: 20
Bento bags are a popular Japanese style of bag. They are called azuma bukuro which translates to “good fortune bag”. You can use these bento bags for bulk shopping, gift wrapping, a lunch box, and even a camera bag. Daisy will guide us through the easy process of making our own bags. Bring fabric with ... Read more
Doing the Work IV: Action oriented session This Thursday is gonna be a letter writing session. Together, we will identify racist institutional practices and come up with ideas on how they can change. We’ll write to City Hall, businesses, local institutions and perhaps a newspaper or two, to ask for a response and a change ... Read more
We continue our Friday tradition of Community Lunch where we can come together to meet other HerSpace members and their guests, share our wins and needs, as well as enjoying a tasty vegetarian meal. We invite you to join us at the table. Our founder, Chisom Udeze, has a special treat for us from her ... Read more
In the last few months we have been hosting Thursday conversations to navigate how we can better show up and act for racial justice. We’ve had some powerful exchanges of experiences and ideas. Regardless of the language, the message is the same. It is time to engage with our Norwegian community on the topic of ... Read more
In this Women in Leadership chapter we will meet Hyacinth Walters-Olsen. She will talk to us about her journey in the entrepreneurship world as well as her experience working abroad and in Norway. Hyacinth has worked as a business development manager for a multi-award winning nationally franchised chain of businesses in the UK. She co-founded ... Read more
“Breast is best” as we’ve all been told. But “why?” and “how?” does something so natural pose challenges for new mothers? How can we prepare moms-to-be so that they enjoy instead of experiencing anxiety around breastfeeding? In our four part series on breastfeeding, we invite Erin Koenig to share her knowledge and experience. With over ... Read more
Cloth table napkins add a special touch to mealtimes and is a great alternative to disposable serviettes for every meal. Back in the day, Norwegian families gave personalized napkin rings to each family member. Dinner napkins could be reused rather than washed immediately after each meal. Your handmade dinner napkins can add to the ritual ... Read more
The UN reports that 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced either physical and/ or sexual intimate partner violence or sexual violence by a non-partner (not including sexual harassment). Sexual violence is one of the most common problems we have as a global society, and we do not address it nearly enough. Join us in ... Read more
Chisom is an Economist, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Strategist, and a 3 times founder of impact driven companies. She has over 14 years of experience working with organizations like the European Commission, The United Nations, ExxonMobil and The Economist Group. Chisom is analytical and a data enthusiast. She is passionate about interrogating the cross-sectoral relationship between society’s inhabitants, resources, production, technology, distribution and output. She efficiently and effectively unlocks complex systems, interprets data, forecasts socio-economic trends and conducts research.
Having lived and worked in 7 countries across 3 continents, she is highly adaptable to different circumstances and people, and thrives in uncertain environments.
As the founder of Diversify and Diversify Consult, Chisom and her team work with companies, institutions, governments and civil society to develop sustainable DEIB strategies and embed measurable diversity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace and society. In addition, in 2022, Diversify launched the Diversify Nordics Summit, the largest conference in the Nordics that gathers cross-sectoral stakeholders to amplify DEIB in the Nordics and beyond.
In 2020, she founded HerSpace, a diverse and inclusive co-creation community for all genders, with particular focus on women and non-binary people. In 2022, HerSpace launched HerTech, Women in Tech incubator, for women-led companies, with a focus on the inclusion of diverse founders.
Chisom is a thought-leader in DEIB and a passionate advocate for mental health and wellness. She writes often on DEIB and justice related topics, some of her work is published on Forbes.
