Geisha Williams Quotes

We want to see companies making a good faith effort and putting some tangible initiatives behind their pledge for diversity.

Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

Back when I was looking for my next step and was researching Gannett, I was interested in who was leading the various businesses within the organization: Are there a lot of women and minorities in important, operational roles, senior management and the board of directors?

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

I realize there is a paucity of African-Americans in my position. Everywhere I go, people say, 'Don't mess this up. Don't forget about us.' You feel a tremendous responsibility, not to take the black side of things but to make sure that side gets heard, because if I don't do it, who's going to do it?

I want to represent all the Latin people. I want to do this for the rest of my life.

Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters - from who designs it to who sits on the company boards and which ethical perspectives are included.

I have a vested interest in increasing the amount of diversity in my own business. That's something that I care about. So mentoring people who are trying to break into the business who could use a hand, that's the type of person I look for.

Diversity matters. You want your city departments to look like the city.

To effect meaningful change, you have to look at who's in the boardrooms, who has the financial control of businesses, and who has the greenlighting power.

If you have got diversity on your board, then you are going to have new ideas come to the table.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.

There is no doubt a president has to govern for everyone.

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.