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Bipartisan Effort to Diversify Corporate Ranks

April Ryan
March 5, 2020

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., left, meets with Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., right, in Schumer’s office at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Efforts to cut into the lack of diversity in corporate America is real. It is also an effort to bring communities of color into spaces that have very little representation and level the playing field.

HR-5084 Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity Act of 2019 has passed in the House.

April Ryan speaks with Senator (D-NV) Catherine Cortez Masto, who is looking for bipartisan support of the Corporate Leadership Act in the Senate.

I want to make sure that tomorrow is brighter for America’s girls than the day before and that they find role models for all their aspirations in every endeavor. Let’s keep fighting for progress this #WomensHistoryMonth ➡️ https://t.co/iN1kUzM3Ej
— Senator Cortez Masto (@SenCortezMasto) March 3, 2020

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April Ryan has a unique vantage point as the only Black female reporter covering urban issues from the White House, a position she has held with AURN since the Clinton era. Her position as a White House Correspondent has afforded her heightened insight into the racial sensitivities, issues, and attendant political struggles of our nation. April has written three books; The Presidency in Black & White: My Close-Up View of Three Presidents and Race in America, At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White, and Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House. Twitter: @aprildryan