The Hill Quotes Joint Center on the Disbandment of the U.S. House Office of Diversity and Inclusion

The Hill highlighted the Joint Center’s contribution in establishing of the U.S. House Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) and featured Senior Researcher Dr. LaShonda Brenson’s quote on its disbandment.

From the article: “The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, which was instrumental in advocating for the creation of the ODI, found in 2022 that though the U.S. population is almost 40 percent people of color, only about 18 percent of all top House staff are people of color. [Dr.] LaShonda Brenson, senior researcher at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, warned that the dissolution of the ODI has placed democracy itself at risk. ‘[W]e are not just losing an office; we are losing ground in our collective pursuit of a truly representative democracy,’ [Dr.] Brenson said.”

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