Diversity directors now hot commodity

Jobs may be scarce in the time of COVID-19, but one position many local companies appear to be filling is that of diversity and inclusion managers.

And this time it may work.

“In 2016 similar [Black Lives Matter] outrage occurred and few companies took action,” said Stefanie K. Johnson, a diversity expert at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. “But this movement feels very different.”

And it is more than a feeling for Johnson, who has published scores of articles on the subject of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) including pieces in…