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Janice Underwood

Janice Underwood became Virginia’s chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer in 2019. She was the first person in the nation to hold a state Cabinet-level position focusing on these issues. Photo by Matthew R.O. Brown
Jan 29, 2021

Disrupting racism

In the months after a blackface scandal threatened his governorship, Gov. Ralph Northam announced that he would appoint a chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer who would report directly to him — the first Cabinet-level position of its kind in any state in the nation. In September 2019, Janice Underwood took on the challenge. A […]

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