DEI went from workplace darling to Persona non grata in the blink of an eye.
The thing that I loved is when I saw
that the president's executive order was named ending illegal discrimination,
I was like, what?
Oh my goodness.
Thank you for that gift.
Why one workplace diversity expert is embracing the change and what it could mean for your job.
That's this week on Explain It To Me new episode Sundays, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Hey, it's Max.
And we're back with the next interview in our series this week with this year's George Polk Award winners.
Today I'm talking to Mariba Knight.
She's a reporter with Nashville Public Radio and she won the Polk Award this year for her podcast,
the Kids of Rutherford County.
Produced in collaboration with Serial and ProPublica,
the Kids of Rutherford county is a four part series that went into great depth,
telling the story of a really like a truly shocking approach to juvenile discipline in a Tennessee county.
So for years on end,
a single elected judge implemented this system in which hundreds and hundreds of kids were arrested and detained,
many of them for minor, minor offenses,