While it can be challenging for early stage ventures to prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) within the hiring process, it is also true that early decisions in these areas are especially important for a company’s long-term DEI trajectory. In this post, we share links we have assembled to help support ed tech entrepreneurs throughout the hiring process.
Leaders often shy away from public discussion of our work to deepen diversity, inclusion, and equity in our organizations for fear of saying the wrong thing, being or making others uncomfortable, taking credit for the work of the collective, conveying that we have “the answers”, and so many other reasons.
Despite progress in integrating American schools following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, U.S. schools are less diverse today than in the 1960s. But as schools have grown more homogenous, our country has only become increasingly diverse.
