Philadelphia's Top-Down Focus on DEI Paves the Way Forward for Meetings
In 1987, two African-American directors on the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau (PHLCVB) board, A. Bruce Crawley, a prominent marketing and communications executive, strategist and business owner, and Dwight Evans, then a state representative and now a U.S. Congressman, saw that Philadelphia was overlooking significant opportunities in minority meetings, conventions and tourism.