Since the murder of George Floyd two years ago and the racial and social justice protests that followed, organizations around the world promised to do more about diversity and inclusion at their institutions.
The U.S. Agency for International Development is no exception, and part of its response was to swear in its first chief diversity officer, Neneh Diallo, in March this year.
The move is in line with the goals of the Biden administration, which has made clear that it wants to ensure diversity permeates through the federal workforce. Last summer, Biden signed an executive order that stipulated that it was the policy of his administration “to cultivate a workforce that draws from the full diversity of the Nation.”