Alliance ED Lisa Howard on Organization’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Recently, we announced our organizational “Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” statement. This statement, crafted with support by consultant group BDS Planning, details the Alliance for Pioneer Square’s commitment to developing and embedding a race and social equity framework within our organization’s foundation. This is a commitment to use our position as a leader, advocate, and trusted steward in the neighborhood to support populations within our community that are experiencing barriers to thriving, both economically and personally, due to the impacts of historic and ongoing systemic racism and oppression.
In this month’s staff interview, Lisa Dixon Howard, Executive Director of the Alliance, talks about what the “Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” statement means for the organization and what’s next.
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