Episode Notes

Zach has the honor of sitting down to chat with award-winning journalist and author Pamela Newkirk to discuss the historical failure of diversity and inclusion. They talk a bit about her 2019 work “Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business,” and Pamela explains how and why transparent metrics across the board are the first step to actively addressing any diversity problem. She also implores institutions that truly want to embrace diversity to just stop doing what they’ve been doing and lean into the successful models that can be readily replicated that already exist out there. Check the links in the show notes to find out more about Pamela’s work!

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EXCERPT

Pamela: Companies are willing to spend billions of dollars every year on all of these, you know, the apparatus of diversity, but they’re not willing to donate their money to interventions to actually doing diversity, actually hiring a diverse workforce. It’s not that complicated, it’s not rocket science, and yet, you know, we live in a world where you can go on Google and find out almost anything, and yet even in major cities companies pretend that they cannot find, you know, diverse candidates.

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