Hill Diversity Highlights
In CNN Op-Ed, the Joint Center Presses Congress to Address Top Staff Diversity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2018 Contact: press@jointcenter.org In CNN Op-Ed, the Joint Center Presses Congress to Address Top Staff Diversity WASHINGTON – In a CNN op-ed, Spencer Overton, president of…
Joint Center Sent Letters to Several Senators-Elect to Address Diversity Among Their Top Staff
The Joint Center sent letters to Senators-Elect: Jacky Rosen (D-NC), Krysten Sinema (D-AZ), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) urging them to hire diverse top staff and key mid-level…
Joint Center Shares Top Staff Diversity Reports With 100 Newly-Elected Members
On November 27, the Joint Center sent each of the 100 newly-elected Members of Congress all of our reports on congressional staff diversity. The e-mail correspondence from the Joint Center’s…
Racial Diversity Among Top Staff of Congressional Delegations of Six States
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies today released detailed reports on the troubling lack of racial diversity among the 167 top staff in the Washington, DC offices of…
Joint Center Sends Ranking Members a Letter Urging Them to Prioritize Diversity
On November 9, the Joint Center sent twenty-two letters to Ranking Members: Elijah Cummings, Peter DeFazio, Ted Deutch, Eliot Engel, Raúl Grijalva, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Zoe Lofgren, Nita Lowey, Carolyn…
Joint Center President Writes Washington Post Op-Ed on House Diversity Report
Joint Center President, Spencer Overton, wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post calling on Congress to address the lack of racial diversity among top staff in the U.S. House of…
Joint Center President Speaks on MSNBC Regarding Recent Report on Racial Diversity Among Top House Staff
On September 23, 2018, Joint Center President Spencer Overton joined PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton to discuss the recently released Joint Center report on top staff diversity among U.S. House staff.…
Racial Diversity Among Top U.S. House Staff
Today, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released Racial Diversity Among Top U.S. House Staff. The report examines racial diversity among top staff in Washington, DC offices of…
Digging Deeper: 2018 Senate Democratic Caucus Diversity Numbers
On July 16, 2018, the Senate Democratic Caucus released an update of demographic data on their staffs (their 2017 numbers are here). Our press release analyzed those offices with the greatest and least diversity among…
Racial Diversity Among Top Senate Staff
Today, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released Racial Diversity Among Top Senate Staff. The report is critical to understanding diversity among top staff in the U.S. Senate, including…