Category: Equity

• Prioritizing the Need for Maternal Health Services to Promote Social Equality By: Rhonda Foxx, Head of Social Equity Policies & Engagement, Intel Over the last year, Intel has worked to advance equity and equality by promoting an environment of inclusion at Intel and within our communities. We launched Equity@Intel to provide a platform to discuss how our technologies and public policies can work together to addresses society’s most pressing issues. I...
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• Fighting a Pandemic Through Technology: One Year Later By Jeff Rittener, Chief Government Affairs Officer for Intel What a year it has been. At this point in 2020, we were at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and no one knew how long it would last. Few expected that a whole year later, we would just be cautiously emerging from the pandemic’s major effects. That makes me even...
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• Why I Support the Equality Act By Marissa Du Bois, Intel From an early age, I was acutely aware of my gender dysphoria but didn’t know how to talk to my parents about my gender. For my entire childhood, I was coerced into expressing my gender as masculine and forced to repress my mannerisms and preferred grooming habits. This left me despondent and withdrawn; I struggled...
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• Why Stopping the Hate Matters to Me William Moss, Director of Reputation Communications, Intel The killing of eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta this week, is a sad capstone to a year of growing violence against Asian Americans and Asian people living in America. While the violence in Atlanta is drawing attention to the longer-term problems of racism against Asians and Asian Americans, it’s easy...
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• The Data is Clear: We need bipartisan support for the Justice in Policing Act By Natasha Martell Jackson, Social Equity Program Office at Intel At Intel, we acknowledge that what happens outside of Intel affects our employees inside the company as well. I've been an Intel employee for more than 20 years and held many roles throughout my career. My most important role, however, is a mother of a young Black son. Therefore, racial...
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• Driving Racial Equity and Equality in the Workplace and Beyond By: Rhonda Foxx, Head of Social Equity Policy & Engagement Guest Voices: Werner Schaefer, Intel’s VP/GM of Network Platforms & Communications Service Provider Sales and LaTanya Flix, Greater Houston Partnership’s Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Last year, Intel declared that standing on the sidelines in the fight against inequality was not an option. This Black History Month,...
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• Advocating for Social Equity and Equality for LGBT+ Communities By Talli Koppel, Director Global Talent Acquisition Growth and Corporate Groups, Intel As an Oregonian, I am proud that Oregon State Senator, Jeff Merkley, reintroduced the #EqualityAct. The Equality Act was initially introduced in Congress in 1974. It's terrible that nearly 30-years later, we're still fighting for this critical legislation. This legislation reflects the views of the majority of Americans....
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• Intel Investing in Diverse and Inclusive Pipeline of Tech Law and Policy Talent By Rhonda Foxx, Head of Social Equity Policy & Engagement at Intel Today, Intel announced its pledge to North Carolina Central University (NCCU), a historically Black college and university (HBCU), with a $5 million grant over the next five years to help the school create a tech law and policy center. Intel will contribute legal and strategic expertise, faculty training,...
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• Intel and Axios Convene Conversation on Global Data-Driven Change and Equity By Rhonda Foxx, Head of Social Equity Policy & Engagement at Intel This week, Intel and Axios convened a critical conversation on the power of data and technology to drive social change. The grave inequities brought to light by the global Covid-19 pandemic and the killings of George Floyd and many others have made clear that racial and social inequality...
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• A Policy Framework for Digital Transformation in Africa By Dr. Bienvenu Agbokponto Soglo, Government and Policy Director for Africa at Intel & Rhonda Foxx, Head of Social Equity Policies and Engagements at Intel The global pandemic has accelerated the need for a swift and equitable worldwide digital transformation to address the digital divide. Achieving this demands a particular focus on critical geographies like Africa and Least Developed Countries...
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