Tag: Inclusion
Everybody’s Business: She’s a champion for Black and brown businesses
(Editor’s note: This is the 56th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
R.I. Foundation hires Cano Morales as its new VP of equity...
PROVIDENCE – Anna Cano Morales, the former Rhode Island College vice president of external relations and diversity, equity and inclusion who left the state-run...
Neronha joins coalition to help businesses retain DEI efforts in the...
PROVIDENCE - Attorney General Peter F. Neronha on Thursday joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general to help businesses maintain diversity, equity, inclusion and...
SETTING A NEW COURSE: 5-year action plan to determine how R.I....
When David N. Cicilline became the Rhode Island Foundation’s new chief executive and president in May 2023, he and the rest of the nonprofit’s...
How DEI rollbacks at colleges set back learning
Just four years ago, following the murder of George Floyd, almost every college and university in the U.S. had at least one diversity, equity...
Five Questions With: Kevin Matta
Kevin Matta is the senior director of people and culture for United Way of Rhode Island Inc. and the president of the Rhode Island-based...
City a leader on diversity, inclusion
The work awaiting Providence’s newly elected mayor and city councilors as the city emerges from a multiyear pandemic is daunting.
But they and the city...
Five Questions With: Christin Zollicoffer
Christin Zollicoffer is the new chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Lifespan Corp. In this role, she leads Lifespan’s strategy for a “diverse,...
Diversify by expanding
Ellie Brown | DESIGNxRI executive director
I want to explore where we are headed as an organization and why. This is going to start with an invitation:...
Equal opportunity
Does your company offer any formal diversity and inclusion programs?
No: 50%
Yes: 50%
No, but implementing such programs are in discussion: 0%
What programs does your business...