Barbara Whye is the Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer and Corporate VP of Social Impact and Human Resources at Intel. In this Q&A interview with Forbes, Barbara explains how she sees diversity work in the current moment.
Get involved in the discussions about reform and find ways to use hardware and software to speed change and make reforms more impactful. We, as a business community, can help remove this stain from our society and make a real difference in people’s lives. What the technology sector is good at is solving hard problems and getting projects done. If we develop empathy for the pain, fear and frustration our black community members are feeling and let it and them guide us, imagine what we could accomplish.
It is more critical now than ever before that we take a stand and demand institutional change across the nation. Racism that exists today in all forms is not acceptable. Our thoughts are with all of those impacted by the tragedy in Minneapolis, as well as the countless other lives lost, as we continue to take a stand and fight for equality.