06/17/2026
Today, DiversityTalk turns 6. 🎉
What started as a simple desire to create space for meaningful conversation has grown into something I could not have fully imagined. DiversityTalk began from a place of advocacy, curiosity, audacity, and a refusal to stay only in the rooms where these conversations felt comfortable.
I wanted to build something that could enter different spaces, ask harder questions, open up new ways of thinking, and support the shifts needed across systems, communities, and institutions.
Six years later, DiversityTalk has grown from an idea into a health and social development company, a consulting practice, a team, and a growing network of like-minded people working across communities, sectors, and borders. We have moved from conversation to strategy, from advocacy to implementation, from lived experience to subject matter expertise, while continuing to learn, evolve, and stay grounded in purpose.
This journey has carried anxiety, sleepless nights, stress, tears, joy, gratitude, and more lessons than I can count. It has also brought partnerships, trust, meaningful work, international opportunities, and the surreal feeling of watching something I once imagined become real.
I am deeply grateful to every client, collaborator, colleague, community partner, team member, and supporter who has trusted DiversityTalk, invited us into important rooms, and helped shape this journey.
To be celebrating six years while in one of my favourite places in the world, London, feels especially full circle as DiversityTalk steps into new spaces, new markets, new partnerships, and new possibilities.
We are 6 🥹
Here’s to the work, the growth, the conversations, and everything still to come🥂
With gratitude,
Ika Washington
Founder & CEO, DiversityTalk
