CBT Wins BBJ's LGBTQIA+ Corporate Ally Award!
CBT Architects was honored as a 2024 Corporate Ally at the annual Boston Business Journal’s Business of Pride event!
Image Credit by Boston Business Journal & Gary Higgins
This award recognizes a Massachusetts company that has demonstrated commitment and innovation to promote greater awareness of and solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community. As a member of the firm’s affinity council CBT Proud, I was honored to be one of the attendees at this year’s award ceremony.
On the 50th anniversary of the NYC Stonewall Inn Riots (an event considered to be the beginning of the LGBTQ+ equality movement) in 2019, CBT officially launched CBT Proud, a firmwide initiative dedicated to celebrating equality, LGBTQ+ representation in architecture and design. The DEI council has since expanded well beyond annual Pride Month programming to include a series of workplace policy reforms, intensive training opportunities, design industry-wide leadership, and collaborative partnerships with LGBTQ+ organizations in and beyond Boston.
“CBT Proud is committed to celebrating the LGBTQ+ community; educating the firm and the design community in both the accomplishments thus far and the work yet to be done in the ongoing fight for equality; promoting an open, welcoming, and safe work environment and culture; and advocating for diversity as a source of strength for CBT that enhances and positively impacts firm work, goals, and achievements. We strongly believe that people do their best work when they feel comfortable being their full and authentic selves – and bringing authenticity to the table.”
