Stay Open to Unexpected Opportunities Cisco Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Gloria Goins wanted to be a lawyer from the time she was six. She also aspired to become a judge. She’d achieved the first goal and was working toward the second when her father became...
The Diversity of Giving When Tanya M. Odom, equity and inclusion program director for the Walton Family Foundation, was growing up, she never thought her academic successes reflected how smart she was. Instead, she saw success as the result of having been given an opportunity. “My mother would...
Bringing STEM Education to All When 29-year-old Kiera Peltz attended a career fair during her freshman year at Brown University, she had every intention of scoring a valuable internship. However, about 75 percent of the employers were tech companies, and the political science major had never...
Advocating and Preparing for Change [caption id="attachment_13603" align="alignleft" width="450"] Photo by Tammy Zurak www.zphotog.net.[/caption] A chance meeting led then–communications executive Lori Spicer Robertson to make a major career pivot. “I met a chief HR officer for a regional bank and he said, ‘You seem perfect for the...
Intentionality Yields Results After starting out in marketing for financial services companies, Lourdes Diaz landed a role in supplier diversity. When she saw how her work helped women- and minority-owned businesses grow, she says, “it was an epiphany for me.” Today, Diaz is still passionate about creating diverse...
Regeneron’s DEI Maestro by Tamara E. Holmes Smita Pillai is a globally acclaimed and multiple award-winning leader in the space of diversity, equity, and inclusion, with an accomplished career spanning life sciences, technology, financial services, and media. She is the chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer for Regeneron,...
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