Inclusion

Now is the time for tech leaders to use their unprecedented power to advance goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion in their own companies and across the industry. On January 27, 2021, we held the third and last dialogue of Tech X Talent. The focus was on addressing industry-wide goal-setting and actionable steps to drive sector change.

JANUARY 12, 2021 - The National Urban League, working with other civil rights organizations and public policy experts, is unveiling the Lewis Latimer Plan for Digital Equity and Inclusion, a detailed and comprehensive agenda to deploy networks everywhere, connect everyone and use the networks to improve how we deliver essential services for workforce development, healthcare and education. 

On December 8, 2020, we convened experts to examine methods for building inclusive work environments, ensuring pay equity, and enhancing performance management.

Local government purchasing, including how a jurisdiction decides what to buy, and how they decide who to buy from, makes a huge difference in how innovative and equitable that government will be.

On November 18, 2020, we convened the first of three roundtables on the operational approaches and structures that advance and promote an equitable and inclusive culture in tech. The conversation focused on the critical actions that managers and other company leaders must (or must not) take to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion.

NOVEMBER 19, 2020 - Local governments are big buyers. But for too long, how and with whom our local governments spend their money has reinforced economic inequities in our country.

OCTOBER 13, 2020 - As part of our ongoing series, this program explores how U.S. entertainment companies are revisiting their traditional models to meet the moment and help diversify this generation of stories and storytellers.

AUGUST 26, 2020 - In the publishing industry, a diversity of thought and perspective is severely lacking from the stories on retailer shelves.

APRIL 24, 2020 - As schools move to distance learning, workers are displaced from their jobs and public services move online, the need for an affordable, reliable broadband connection and productivity technology is even more acute.