National Weather Service (NWS)
Southern Region Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Shreveport
conducts a Regional Diversity Conference.
The WFO Shreveport Diversity Team consisting
of MIC Armando Garza, ASA Lisa Frantz and Journeyman
Forecaster Bill Parker conducted a Regional Diversity
Conference on February 8-9, 2007 in Shreveport, Louisiana.
The team worked closely with the Regional EEO Manager
Gena Morrison in order to provide this tremendous opportunity
for “real world diversity training” for
federal employees. The scope was to provide ideas on
how to improve diversity in the workplace and become
more in tune with generational differences that arise
in the workplace on a daily basis.
Over 50 NWS employees attended from offices
as far east as Birmingham, Alabama and as far west as
the Texas Panhandle. There were also representatives
from Southern Regional Headquarters, and National Weather
Service Headquarters. The second day of the conference
included other local federal agencies (FAA, SSA, HUD,
VA) who were invited from the Shreveport-Bossier City
area. Newly elected Mayor Cedric Glover representative
Gwen Campbell welcomed the group and indicated that
this was truly a conference that should be embraced
by the community as exemplary and visionary for today’s
time. Acting Regional Director Steven Cooper also spoke
highly of the National Weather Service’s commitment
to address diversity in the workplace. The attendance
for the two day event totaled just under 70 people,
and many favorable comments were received concerning
the conference.
The National Weather Service Forecast
Office in Shreveport welcomes any comments or suggestions
about the 2007 Diversity Conference. Please contact
any of these personnel at the NWSFO in Shreveport LA:
Meteorologist-in-Charge Armando
Garza, Meteorologist Bill
Parker, or Administrative Assistant Lisa
Frantz.
Below are photographs of some of the speakers
and attendees who made this conference a success. Click
on the photographs to enlarge them.