About Us

Mission

To promote a welcoming work environment that fosters a culture of collaboration, innovation, and sense of belonging where employees are empowered to be the best version of themselves.

Core Values

We embrace a set of core values to guide our efforts in building a workplace environment and culture where all employees feel safe bringing their authentic selves to work.

Administration’s Priorities

These values are fully aligned with the administration’s priorities of integrity, efficiency, and collaboration:

• Integrity – Consistently aligning actions and values, fostering trust, authenticity, accountability, and ethical behavior within diverse, welcoming communities and relationships.

• Efficiency – Optimizing processes and resources while respecting people’s well-being, supporting adaptability, and nurturing a positive, sustainable organizational culture.

• Collaboration – Working together means uniting strengths, fostering mutual respect, open communication, trust, and shared goals to achieve collective innovation and organizational success.

Purpose

Established in 2017*, we lead statewide efforts to promote fairness, opportunity and representation across all levels of government. Our core responsibilities include:

• Strategic Leadership: Guiding efforts to define, assess, and cultivate fair access and opportunity throughout state government.

• Data and Accountability: Providing analysis of institutional data to benchmark progress and promote accountability related to workforce representation and access. Developing metrics and processes to evaluate efforts that support a representative and respectful workplace.

• Education and Awareness: Promoting and providing education to foster awareness and understanding of various laws, regulations, and policies regarding nondiscrimination.

• Workforce Development: Collaborating with state agencies to identify policies and practices that support the recruitment and retention of employees from historically underserved populations.

• Policy and Practice Evaluation: Reviewing and advising on organizational practices to ensure alignment with principles of fairness, access and opportunity in the workplace.

*Established by House Bill 4  of the 149th General Assembly.