Matthew j Yazzie
Matthew is an Indigenous rights advocate and organizational and behavioral scientist focusing on workplace trauma, discrimination, and harassment with over eighteen years of diversity, equity and inclusion experience in tech.
Matthew is the Founder of the Others Project*, the first real-time, consolidated, and open-source initiative dedicated to Diversity + Inclusion data. In addition, he serves as an Advisor to the Board for Project Include and as an Advisor to Spot, a company creating AI reporting tools that makes it safer for employees to speak up on issues of harassment and discrimination.
Speaking
Matthew has been a featured corporate and non-profit keynote speaker for NASA, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), the United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) National Conference, Culture Amp’s Culture First Summit, SaaStr — the largest B2B conference in the world, X - The Moonshot Factory, United Airlines’ Native American Heritage Month Worldwide Celebration, Reality Labs at Meta’s Indigenous Heritage Month, and Google’s Aboriginal and Indigenous Network speaker roundtable on challenges for Indigenous community during the pandemic, to name a few.
Matthew has also delivered keynote speeches and presentations to academic audiences which include the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard’s Belonging@Broad Summit, The University of Pennsylvania Wharton Alliance’s Diversity Case Competition, University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business Professionalism Summit, Stanford University’s Native American Culture Center, University of San Francisco, and The Dalton School.
Kapor Center
Worked in collaboration with the leadership team to develop a one-day diversity executive training workshop based on feedback from growing Diversity Advocates group.
Collective | A DEI Lab
Developed executive strategic plans for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) clients and conducted internal audits to provide context on workplace culture, bias, and potential high-risk DEIB areas.
Women 2.0
Platform and Product Manager for The Dot, a diversity and inclusion network that extends beyond gender-forward programming.
Jurispect
Chief Operating Officer of a financial technology artificial intelligence company who developed, evaluated, and implemented performance metrics for all daily business, people, and facility operations.
FWD.us
Chief Operating Officer responsible for all daily business and people operations of an immigration and education policy reform non-profit.
Founders Embassy
Thought Leader and workshop contributor and facilitator for the world's first accelerator designed exclusively to induct international and immigrant entrepreneurs into the Silicon Valley ecosystem.