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Meet The Changemakers: Alexis Vogt Raising the Bar While Raising Kids: Increasing Diversity in Optics Careers. Details here.

Posted on May 8, 2021 Revolver, May 5, 2021 On February 3, 2021, in the wake of the “deadly events” of 1/6, Biden’s new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a 60-day stand-down and total purge of the U.S. military’s rampant, undefined “extremism” problem. Though the details of this purge were always kept vague and framed in apolitical terms, it was immediately obvious the target would be MAGA — with the buzzword “extremism” tagged onto various proxies for Trump supporters, conservatives, and opponents of globalism of all stripes. We now know the hatchet man the Pentago...

Bay Area political events: Race and Hollywood, future of the office Chronicle staff report FacebookTwitterEmail Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted: TUESDAY Race and diversity in Hollywood: A discussion of the obstacles that people of color face in entertainment, as well as steps toward industry changes to increase representation. Participants include Franklin Leonard, founder of the Black List, and Sheldon Lyn, co-author of “Black Representation in Film and TV: The Challenges and Impact of Increasing Diversity.” Hosted by the Commonw...

Bay Area political events: Housing, coronavirus town hall Chronicle staff report FacebookTwitterEmail Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted: MONDAY Rep. Ro Khanna: Fremont Democrat holds a town hall meeting. Noon. More information is here. George W. Bush: Former president on his new book, “Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants.” Hosted by the Commonwealth Club. Noon. More information is here. TUESDAY Housing solutions: A discussion with the affordable housing and homelessness advocates who created Roadmap Home 2030, a pl...

Hollywood Losing $10B in Potential Annual Revenue From Black Inequity, Says McKinsey Report Rebecca Sun Black Inclusion in Hollywood As Hollywood companies and affiliated organizations scramble to hire diversity experts and strategists as part of their public commitments to inclusion, management consulting powerhouse McKinsey & Co. has applied its analytic expertise to the industry as a whole in a report diagnosing the experience of Black professionals working in entertainment. Penned by McKinsey partners Jonathan Dunn, Sheldon Lyn and Ammanuel Zegeye and consultant Nony Onye...