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Scoop: Secretary of State Blinken to appoint former career diplomat Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley to a newly-created post at the State Department to address the department's longstanding challenges on diversity & inclusion https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/12/diversity-state-department-diplomacy-gina-abercrombie-winstanley/
The State Department has struggled to shed its "pale, male and Yale" reputation for years, and only made mixed progress in recent decades (in some ways regressing). Blinken has vowed to make diversity & inclusion a top priority for the department
There's a lot of demand from both Congress & current & former diplomats for meaningful changes. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/11/u-s-black-diplomats-state-department-george-floyd-protests-trump-pompeo-state-department-diversity-racial-injustice-police-violence-soft-power/
Also everyone should read this piece from @PoliticoRyan about discrimination that Asian-American diplomats have faced while serving at the State Department https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/18/asian-americans-state-department-477106
And, in his own words, this thread from a member of Congress, New Jersey's Andy Kim, who used to work at the State Department before running for office https://twitter.com/AndyKimNJ/status/1373282035633119233
