REJECT THE REJECTIONS
People Like Us champions workplace equity for ethnic minority professionals. Our new campaign explores the barriers they face in hiring, turning real automated rejection emails into a spoken-word film that gives them voice.
People Like Us
is an award-winning
not-for-profit
championing ethnic minority talent
until workplaces reflect
the world they serve.
is an award-winning
not-for-profit
championing ethnic minority talent
until workplaces reflect
the world they serve.
We are a community and a movement. Since 2019, People Like Us has brought together thousands of professionals, delivered mentoring programmes, shaped industry conversations, and championed legislative change. By connecting, developing and championing ethnic minority talent – and holding organisations and government to account – our mission is to make genuine workplace equity a reality across the UK.
Our Partners
events
Featured Event
PEOPLE LIKE US X THE ROMANS, AMSTERDAM
We’re heading to the Netherlands!
People Like Us brings its conversations on representation and belonging to the Netherlands for the first time, hosted by long-term partner The Romans at their Amsterdam hub.
Expect trademark three-minute talks from ethnically diverse voices across journalism, PR, marketing, advertising, film and design, real connections with leading brands and agencies, and a famously friendly crowd.
This marks the next step in PLU’s growing international footprint, following two sold-out events in Cannes with the Financial Times.
Featured Event
PEOPLE LIKE US X CANNES LIONS, LONDON
People Like Us turns seven, and we’re throwing a party.
For the last two Junes, we’ve joined the Financial Times on the seafront at Cannes for the world’s biggest festival of creativity. This December, we’re bringing a little of that Cannes magic home to London, in partnership with Cannes Lions.
Expect everything you love about a PLU night: trademark three-minute talks from brilliant ethnically diverse voices across the creative industries, real connections with leading brands and agencies, and a room bursting with joy.
Spotlight
Campaign
NAME THE BIAS
This powerful campaign exposed the inequity faced by ethnic minority workers in the UK. At its centre is a short film by award-winning director Naghmeh Pour and New Land, with spoken word artist Yasmin Ali highlighting the need for workplace change.
Inspired by Oxford University research showing ethnically diverse candidates must send 60% more applications to get a response, the campaign calls on government to set a timeline for ethnicity pay gap reporting and shares expert guidance on tackling pay inequity at work.