The Joint Center organized four letters signed by nearly 70 civil rights and advocacy groups addressed to new and returning members of Congress urging them to hire racially diverse people in their personal office top and key mid-level staff positions.
In the letters, individually addressed to all incoming and returning House Members and incoming and returning senators, we recommended to: 1). Adopt a diversity plan; 2). Work with the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO); 3). Work with the Tri-Caucus Staff Associations; 4). Engage the Tri-Caucus nonprofit organizations and other organizations similarly focused on diversity in government; and 5). Support the Establishment of a Bipartisan Senate Diversity and Inclusion Office to Improve Staff Diversity
Signees include American Governance Institute, Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS), Black Economic Alliance, Black Futures Lab, Black to the Future Action Fund, Black Voters Matter Fund, Black Women’s Congressional Alliance, Black Women’s Health Imperative, CenterLink: The Community of LGBTQ Centers, Coalition on Human Needs, Color Of Change, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), D&P Creative Strategies, Democracy Fund Voice, Diversity in Government Relations Coalition, EdTrust, Empowering Pacific Islander Communities, Equal Justice Society, Equality California, Impact Fund, Inclusive America, Issue One, Japanese American Citizens League, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), MANA, A National Latina Organization, NAACP, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), National Action Network, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), National Asian Pacific American Families Allied for Substance Awareness and Harm Reduction, National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB), National Association of Securities Professionals, National Bankers Association, National Black Justice Collective, National Black Worker Center, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD), National Employment Law Project, National Partnership for Women & Families, National Urban League, National Women’s Law Center, National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA), NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, POPVOX Foundation, Race Forward, Reflections DEI, Representative Democracy, Rulon & White Governance Strategies, Senate Black Legislative Staff Caucus (SBLSC), Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), Springfield Food Policy Council, State and Federal Communications, Inc., State Innovation Exchange (SiX), TESOL International Association, The Almond Group, The Arc of the United States, The Madison Group, LLC, The National Institute For Lobbying & Ethics, The Sikh Coalition, Third Way, U.S. Black Chambers, Inc., UnidosUS, Union for Reform Judaism, Washington Government Relations Group, Women of Reform Judaism, and Working IDEAL.
Learn more about our Hill diversity work here.