Sentences with phrase «first woman and person of color»

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When she first started talking about how the school needed to become more diverse, she says, «I was surprised to find out the meme around Harvey Mudd was that we are a merit - based institution and bringing in more women or people of color would mean lowering our standards.»

PayPal publicly released its government - mandated diversity reports for the first time Friday, showing small gains for women and people of color in its executive ranks in the past year but still an overwhelmingly white and male top management.

Women and people of color were picked for a majority of open S&P 500 board seats this year for the first time, according to a survey from recruiting firm Spencer Stuart.

There are many chefs deserving of profiles on bonappetit.com, and we have chosen to feature primarily women, many of them people of color, first and foremost because they're extremely talented people we think our readers need to know about.

Today, Ferreras is the first woman, first person of color and the youngest City Councilmember to be elected as Finance Chair.

James, the first woman of color to hold citywide elected office in New York City, has served as the people's advocate and as a watchdog for city government for the last several years.

Many have pushed for Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, a Westchester County legislator who has led Senate Democrats since 2012 and is the first woman or person of color to lead a legislative conference, to be included at the negotiating table during budget and other high - level talks.

Still, they succeed where it counts: Black Panther makes the Marvel Cinematic Universe a bigger, more interesting, more engaging place, one where for the first time women and people of color aren't limited to token or supporting roles.

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

Allison Janney won the Oscar but Octavia Spencer and Mary J Blige both made history: Spencer tied Viola Davis for most Oscar nominations for a woman of color (any category) and Mary J Blige is the first person ever nominated for both acting and songwriting in a single year (Barbra Streisand won Oscars in both but in different years).

For the first time EVER their acting award nominations are ONLY women and people of color.

The writers and director of that movie are also people of color, and the film's cinematographer, Rachel Morrison, was the first woman nominated for an Oscar in that category, for her work on «Mudbound.»

(One additional note on Best Supporting Actress to segue into surprises: Mary J. Blige is not only the first person ever nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song in the same year, but the first actor Oscar - nominated for a film directed by a woman of color, Mudbound's Dee Rees.)

Six artists of color use performance, photography, textiles, and more to take on stories such as modern - day gentrification in Bed - Stuy, traced through an amateur kung fu film found at the former home of a theater frequented by Reverend Al Sharpton; the Syrian refugee crisis and conflict, mixing media coverage and first - person accounts; and the actual Revolutionary War's 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, conducted by a woman of color.

«Ghosts,» she says, explaining that the island evokes — or rather is haunted by — the spirits of a generation of men and women: artists, thinkers, people of color, the affluent, the middle class, the ignored, the displaced, those let down by their government, those who caught the disease too early, those who didn't realize they had caught it at all, those who thought they would never catch it but who did, all of those who were lost to the dark times when she first came to New York City in the early 1990s, at the height of the AIDS crisis.

As Reg Davis of the ABA Journal pointed out in his article about the first TBD Law meeting (TBD1), there were «few women and people of color there.»

First, because women and people of color are less likely to register than white men, the unevenness of our invitations was exacerbated in the final registration numbers.