Protecting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)

Our country desperately needs solutions to discrimination, segregation, and disparities.

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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

Blog: Why We Will Win on DEIA
Fact sheet: History of Longstanding Bipartisan Support for DEIA
Testimony: Maya Wiley Testifies on Employment Discrimination Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability
Letter: President Biden Must Promote Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
Blog: Why Protecting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Is a National Imperative
Resource: Polling Analysis Shows Broad Support for Diversity and Inclusion Practices

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.