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To get you up to speed, SAGE’s mission strategies for impact include community building and capacity development, education, and awareness raising around the issues and gender mainstreaming, which is the integration of gender considerations into any tools, policies, activities, certifications, or anything that we do in seafood.

“We want to see gender be a significant component of everything because we believe it’ll make everything much stronger,” Kuchepatov said. She goes on to explain SAGE’s three flagship programs, including a Gender Equality Dialogues, “which is a forum for senior leaders in the seafood industry to meet in dialogue and align around issues, then leave equipped with tools that will help them implement the commitments they make towards increasing diversity leadership in their own companies.”

They also offer The Bloom, a networking community for women and genderqueer people, including monthly virtual meetings and group chats where they share job opportunities and helpful articles and uplift each other. “Anyone who works at any node in the seafood sector is welcome to join,” Kuchepotov said. “We have more than a hundred members so far, ranging from oyster farmers to quality control technicians to VPs of Sales of big seafood companies.”

SAGE’s third program is The Conch podcast. “You can find the podcast on any streaming platform. The podcast really brings us back to our mission of uplifting and amplifying diverse voices in the seafood sector,” Kuchepatov said. “It’s pretty fun and informative. I’ve learned a lot, and I really enjoy it. It’s a great tool.”