MMI Campfire Chat: Celebrating Diversity!

The MMI Campfire chats are back for series three! Join the MMI Team and our fantastic guests for an informal delve into themes and topics that matter to the veterinary community. Open to all, these free online panel sessions offer a chance to pause, reflect and learn from each other’s experiences of navigating life and work.

MMI Campfire Chat: Celebrating Diversity!

In this MMI Campfire Chat…

Zero Discrimination Day was launched on World Aids Day in December 2013 by UNAIDS, a UN programme set up in response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Since then, it has grown into an annual opportunity to celebrate diversity of all kinds, while championing everyone’s right to life a full life, with dignity.

In this Campfire Chat, taking place on Zero Discrimination Day, we’ll be discussing what celebrating diversity means to us, exploring how this links to mental health, and sharing our thoughts on why – and how – we should all be working towards greater inclusivity, both in and out of the workplace.

Panel guests

Lacey Pitcher

Lacey is an RVN originally from the South Wales valleys. She has enjoyed a squiggly career and worked in a variety of settings and disciplines finding the challenge of ICU and emergency care a particular passion. While exploring her career growth and learning more about leadership, Lacey made it her mission to better understand her values and self-development. She is passionate about inclusivity and widening participation and driving sustained change and growth. Lacey encourages the notion that curiosity opens conversations thus leading to better work-based culture. Lacey has recently accepted a role with MMI to help support the profession who have very much supported her.

Liv Anderson-Nathan

Liv is currently working both as a vet in small animal charity practice and teaching final year vet students on rotation. She also holds an MSc in Applied Animal Behaviour & Welfare and has worked in a variety of clinical and non-clinical communications roles since qualifying in 2016. She likes working with effective and diverse teams, naughty torties and very good doggos.

Liv has been a trustee of British Veterinary Chronic Illness Support (BVCIS) since the charity's creation in 2021, and currently serves as Vice-Chair.

Samantha Payne

Samantha qualified as an RVN in 2009. Since starting as a student, she has experienced first opinion, large charity practice and management positions. Her passion for nursing is as strong now as it was when she first started.

Her passion was for ECC and theatre practice. She currently has a certificate in emergency and critical care. As time has gone on, Samantha’s passion has changed towards a more client-based practice. Now practicing full time as a consulting nurse, she is keen to see more practices bring in similar roles. She is currently completing a certification in consulting.

As a BVNA council member and RCVS Diversity And Inclusion Group (DIG) representative, Samantha hopes to use her position to promote the role of a consulting nurse with community out-reach, as well as diversity and inclusion within the profession and the community. She is keen to encourage more use of fear free practice and to help nurses work towards best practice with everything they do. Everyone needs job satisfaction and Samantha wants to see more nurses find this by aiming for what they need from their careers.

Programme timings and information

7:00 - 8:00pm

The interactive session will be held online, via Zoom.

This event counts towards your CPD.

Cost

There is no charge to attend this event.

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Contact us

Should you have any questions, please email the RCVS Events Team.