Blinken names chief diversity officer to lead change on a 'problem as old as the department itself'

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken has named retired ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley as the department's first chief diversity and inclusion officer

"Gina has a track record over her career of bringing empirical rigor and fierce urgency to the fight for diversity and inclusion and in pushing for accountability," Blinken said Monday at the State Department. He said Abercrombie-Winstanley has"consistently been a courageous and outspoken voice on these issues, including by sharing her own experiences of discrimination...

"Abercrombie-Winstanley will help State finalize a Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan, which is expected to include concrete metrics for the Department and will be released later this spring. She will also be"empowered to develop a robust framework for fostering diversity and inclusion in our workforce" and"entrusted with aligning and advancing diversity and inclusion efforts across the department," Blinken said.

 

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We don't need a diversity and inclusion officer

Identity politics is a disease

Diversity and inclusion officer?

The idea not to mention the formation of a chief diversity and inclusion officer is just sad and pandering, it accomplishes nothing

More bureaucrats. Wonderful. We are saved

I wish the cool people would include me when they go clubbing and partying...sigh

1984

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