Sentences with phrase «advancing women and people of color»

Cooley also is holding its leadership ranks accountable for advancing women and people of color.

Not exact matches

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler recently spoke at Vulture Festival LA about their highly - anticipated films as both are directing genre blockbusters that fans also anticipate being huge in advancing representation for women and people of color.

In fact, of the 29 presenters the Academy announced in advance of the show, close to 60 percent are women, and 51 percent are people of color.

«My colleagues (past and present) and I continually think about the relationship between the contemporary and historical parts of the museum's collection and exhibitions, and how they relate to the city of Baltimore,» said Kristen Hileman, the BMA's Senior Contemporary Curator since 2009, who curated Crosby's solo exhibition — a show planned years in advance of the museum's recent series of shows by women and people of color.

This is true at the BigLaw level as well, where diversity — both in terms of people of color and in terms of advancing the role of women in a profession where they are far less likely to end up at the top — seems to be framed simultaneously as incredibly important but also impossible.