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Nike’s employee-led networks are built on the diverse, intersecting identities of all our teammates. This month, Paralympian Beatriz Hatz visited Nike’s World Headquarters and sat down with members from two employee networks — the Disability Network and the Latino & Friends Network — to share more about her overlapping identities as a multi-ethnic, disabled athlete.   Erica Korpi, a Senior Administrative Assistant at Nike, serves on the leadership team for Nike’s Disability Network, and was one of the moderators who sat down with Beatriz for a heartfelt conversation about the athlete's career, her summer in Paris, and her intersectional identities. Beatriz’s personal story hits home for Erica.   “I consider myself both a runner and a disabled woman,” says Erica. “Connecting with others like me, especially someone as incredible as Beatriz, feeds my soul. Nike’s core belief — 'If you have a body, you’re an athlete' — is brought to life through visits like these. It was an honor to share her story with our Nike teammates.”   Learn more about our Nike United Networks: https://lnkd.in/gcxyit3S #LifeAtNike #DEAM #HispanicHeritageMonth #NikeUNITED

Check ball 🏀 We're covering all things hoops in this month's Swoosh Stories. #NikeBasketball #Jumpman #SwooshStories

How do you top an unforgettable summer in Paris? If you’re Faith Kipyegon, try being nominated for the 2024 Women’s Track Athlete of the Year. The awards and accolades may keep on coming, but the dominant middle-distance runner says she’s after something else: “When young runners from the next generation watch me compete, I want them to see freedom — the freedom to challenge themselves in new ways.” Hear more from Faith about her earliest running memories, how her identity as a mother gives her life, and more at https://lnkd.in/gKUK2CBj #NikeRunning #JustDoIt

In his first week back, our new President & CEO Elliott Hill immediately set the tone: We’re here to win as a team. Go bts and see Elliott describe what it’s like being back at the Swoosh and what's next for Nike: https://lnkd.in/guQUyijC #JustDoIt #SwooshLife #Team

Sweet collab, Converse. We’re big Billie fans too.  🎤 👟 🔥

Nike Running’s newest super trainer, the Zoom Fly 6, is designed to help runners push the pace during their most important workouts. Who better to put the shoe through its paces than the greatest marathoner of all time? Eliud Kipchoge delivered his wise, thoughtful feedback on the Zoom Fly 6 in a few different ways — perhaps none more fitting than his thorough handwritten notes. Eliud’s partnership embodies what happens when our athletes join us in refining our latest performance models. They become critical members of the Nike team. “We’ve started to call Eliud our 'Product Line Manager on the ground,' says Elliott Heath, Nike’s Sr. Expert of Running Footwear. “He’s doing hand sketches and writing dedicated notes about our prototypes — that’s his baseline. He’s the world’s best marathoner, but he actually feels like a member of our product team.” Hear more from our ultimate wear-tester on the Zoom Fly 6: https://lnkd.in/gZqXtsre #SwooshLife #NikeRunning #JustDoIt

Welcome home, Elliott Hill. NIKE, Inc.’s new President & CEO kicked off his first day by bringing together our Nike, Jordan and Converse teams around the world to talk about writing the next great chapter of our company. #JustDoIt

The torch has been passed: the LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games are less than four years away, and community organizations creating the future of youth sport know there’s no time to lose. To kick off, in partnership with LA28 and the Center for Healing and Justice through Sport, we hosted 350 coaches and leaders from 35 Nike grantees and more than 100 LA-based youth sport organizations in Inglewood for the Nike Coach Summit. Last Saturday, they participated in coach training focused on creating a sense of belonging for all youth, especially girls, in sport. Youth sport leaders also spent time together as peer movement-builders in the City of Athletes. The moment inspires and fuels our Nike Social & Community Impact work. “The momentum we’ve created with our partners to power the future of youth sport in LA through the Nike Coach Summit is incredible,” says Jaime Guzman, Director of Social & Community Impact in Los Angeles. “Every organization now has a stronger sense of how they’re part of the movement to build inclusivity through coaching and sport equity for all our city’s youth.” Check out more ways we’re working to get kids involved in sports: https://lnkd.in/dvdVXYsQ #JustDoIt #LAOlympics #NikeCoachSummit

Couldn’t agree more, Brandis Russell. We’re better together.

There’s sneakerheads. Then there’s EKINs. Knowing our product backward and forward (literally, it’s in the name), EKINs are the technical experts of Nike footwear, spanning our retail doors across the world. It’s a given that diversity is a defining part of the EKIN way. “As EKINs, we’re asked to step out into our communities and break down barriers for people of color who want to get into these fields. We’re given the freedom to connect with our communities and consumers, educate them about our product, and even give them the chance to trial our shoes and give feedback. Product expertise should come from anywhere.” That’s Daniel Eastland, a performance running EKIN based in Detroit, which played host to last weekend’s Black Footwear Forum (BFF). The conference offered Dan the opportunity to meet other EKINs across the country, hear from design luminaries like Wilson Smith and attend seminars with some of the most diverse, influential voices in the footwear industry. You can’t help but be inspired around that kind of company, Dan says. Meeting others who are breaking down barriers in the field — designers, product creatives, and especially other EKINs — motivates him to teach the next generation of Nike product experts, starting in his own backyard of Detroit. “Anybody is capable of getting into these fields, as long as they’re adamant about their goals and they push toward them," Dan says. Learn more about how we win as a team: https://lnkd.in/dG8d_ZJK #JustDoIt #SwooshLife #BlackFootwearForm