Protecting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)
Our country desperately needs solutions to discrimination, segregation, and disparities.
Protecting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)
Our country desperately needs solutions to discrimination, segregation, and disparities. While there are those who seek to roll back the clock, halt racial progress, and undermine the gains we have made as a nation, our laws and our values will not allow us to move backward.
Everyone has a role to play in creating a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible America in education, employment, credit, government programs, and every sector of society. DEIA is vital to economic growth — while underscoring key American values of equal opportunity and fairness.
The Leadership Conference convenes advocates from civil rights, employment, education, labor, and across all sectors to speak with one voice on the need to protect DEIA.
“If we’re not about inclusion in this country, then what are we about?”
– Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Key Resources
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WASHINGTON — Liz King, senior director for education equity at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the Trump administration released a trio of executive orders seeking to scare schools away from teaching and supporting their students:
Trump Executive Order Attempts to Reverse Civil Rights and Drive Division in Public and Private Sector
WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement in response to the issuance of an executive order that attempts to reverse civil rights, undermine progress, and drive division. It reverses core equal opportunity executive orders and pressures corporations, non-profits, schools, and professional associations to roll back diversity practices born out of the struggle against discrimination and for fairness and shared prosperity.
About the Protecting DEIA Coalition
The Leadership Conference convenes the Protecting DEI coalition — a cross-sector and cross-community set of advocates — to share resources and opportunities for collective action. The groups work together to call for programs, policies, and practices that support equity and inclusion and to create opportunities for all.