HISPA
For the Hispanic and Latino community
Promoting personal and professional development
The Hispanic community accounts for over 19% of the US workforce. Open to all company employees, our US-based HISPA Professionals in Technology Inc (HISPA) is an employee resource group, which promotes the personal and professional development of our Hispanic colleagues and wider community. By increasing awareness and understanding of Hispanic culture and our community at Nokia, we are proud to support an inclusive and diverse work environment across the company.
Our aim is to bring about change in the areas of employment (attracting, retaining and advancing Hispanic professionals), procurement (supplier diversity), leadership and philanthropy (community partnerships). Above all, we want our Hispanic colleagues to be their authentic selves, able to share ideas and opinions openly, to be empowered and supported, and to be proud of their amazing culture.
Reaching out to the internal and external communities
Our activities fall under the three pillars of HISPA - Social Responsibility, Professional Development and Career Progression. Activities include:
- Partnering with the company’s Talent Acquisition team to recruit students at local events or virtually through various platforms (such as Handshake and Color Stack).
- Through external and internal partnerships, working to offer quarterly personal/professional development sessions.
- Hosting a Hispanic Heritage Month every year, with cultural talks and workshops, in addition to partnering with other ERGs to plan and deliver the annual Professional Development Conference that is open to the company.
- Supporting community outreach programs for Hispanic/ Latino communities throughout the United States and Latin America, such as Feed My Starving Children and Little Village Toy Drive (for children in the Chicago area).
Driving supplier diversity
We cooperate with the other employee resource groups at Nokia. With the wider Hispanic community and better business in mind, we partner with our company’s Supplier Diversity team to enrich the diversity of our supplier database. We are also active towards the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (the largest networking venue for Hispanic businesses and Fortune 1000 corporations), where Nokia has repeatedly been awarded the Million Dollar Club award for diversity spend. Together with the company’s procurement team, we continue to support customers, such as US Cellular, in supplier diversity.
