Judges & Speakers

Marsie Sweetland

Marsie Sweetland is the founder of Equinix FaithConnect, a Fortune 500 belief-based Employee Resource Group that is open to all faiths, non-faiths, and worldviews. Through interfaith and religious literacy events with some of the top companies in the world (Google, PayPal, American Airlines, Apple, and more), FaithConnect strives to forward Equinix’s goal of building a diverse and inclusive culture where every employee can say, “I'm safe, I belong, and I matter.” FaithConnect ranked Equinix as the #3 top faith-friendly workplace in the 2023 Religious Equity Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) Index. By day, Marsie is a Sr. Client Executive, managing the global relationship with some of Equinix’s largest customers, and she is employee #97 at Equinix. Outside work, Marsie is a Taskforce Member for the Faith & Media Initiative, an Advisor for AI & Faith and a Board Member for the International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination, ICAAD. Marsie is also the co-founder of definehate.org, whose goal is to provide an accurate and transparent dataset of hate speech to help AI researchers create algorithms that protect marginalized groups against discrimination, prejudice, and hateful acts of violence.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marsiesweetland