Press Mention

By Megan O’Neil The Chronicle of Philanthropy Environmental organizations—overwhelmingly the domain of white professionals—must implement strategies to combat unconscious bias and a lack of diversity in hiring, a new report says. Commissioned by a diversity advocacy group called Green 2.0, the report found that while people of color make up about 36 percent of the U.S. population…

WRITTEN BY RUTH MCCAMBRIDGE CREATED ON WEDNESDAY, 30 JULY 2014 13:57 A study released yesterday takes a look at gender, racial, and class diversity in three types of environmental groups—government agencies, grantmaking foundations, and nonprofits (in particular, conservation and preservation groups that could be designated “mainstream”)—and finds the landscape disturbing. The principal investigator of the study is Dorceta E.…

By Brentin Mock  University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment I need to get one thing out the way about “The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations” report launched yesterday. In my blog, I wrote that the report was compiled by a working group called Green 2.0. Actually, all of the research and writing of…

By Brentin Mock President John F. Kennedy once told an audience of American University grads, “We can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air.” That was 1963. We did not inhale the…

By MARIANNE LEVINE New study finds lack of minority representation in environmental groups Leaders of environmental groups express concern over lack of diversity in staff following new study Minorities and people of color have not managed to break the “green ceiling” inside environmental organizations, and remain underrepresented on their staffs, according to a report released Monday.…

New Report Identifies ‘Green Ceiling’ as Diverse Environmental Leaders Launch www.legacyontheland.com In a twist of fate that I identify as “Divine Timing,’ a new Report  released  Monday reveals a persistent ‘Green Ceiling’ for Americans of color, just as we’re preparing to launch the Diverse Environmental Leaders (DEL) National Speakers Bureau. Reaffirming my faith in an intelligent Cosmos…