EXPANDING THE CONVERSATION ABOUT RACIAL JUSTICE

'DiversifyIT' brings new colleagues into fight against racism. 

Dispirited by images of police violence against Black Americans, Steve Rich, like others at Duke, wanted to do something to fight systemic racism, but he didn't know where to start.

An IT analyst with Duke's Office of Information Technology (OIT), Rich occasionally participated in events organized by DiversifyIT, a staff-led OIT initiative to create a more inclusive climate across Duke's IT spaces. And since last summer, when DiversifyIT launched "Living (IT) While Black," a series of conversations about race with colleagues and campus leaders, Rich, who is white, has become a fixture. Read more here.