Apple's head of diversity Christie Smith leaves one week after company makes $100 millio... - Business Insider

Apple's head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith has left the company.

Her departure comes a week after the company pledged $100 million to establish a new fund called the Apple Racial Equity and Justice Initiative.Apple has lost its chief diversity officer one week after it promised to establish a $100 million fund to fight racial injustice.was the first to report that Apple's head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith was leaving the company.

Smith has worked for Apple since 2017, and the company confirmed her departure in a statement to Bloomberg: "Christie Smith will be leaving Apple to spend more time with her family and we wish her well. Our Inclusion and Diversity team continues to report directly to Deirdre O'Brien on the Executive Team." Deirdre O'Brien is Apple's senior vice president of retail and people.

Apple told Bloomberg her departure was planned two months ago, but a source familiar with the matter said her last day was Tuesday., a $100 million fund aimed at fighting racial injustice and promoting diversity both inside the company and out in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the death of George Floyd.9% of its US employees are Black, up from 7% in 2014. Only 6% of its US tech workers are Black, which is the same level the company was at in 2014.

I think they outsourced their article writing to high schoolers because college students were unaffordable ...

Hm Strange

Does this include Asians too or are they being selectively racist?

In theory D&I is a good idea, but it’s become a forced exercise that no one enjoys, especially those enforcing it. D&I needs to be reassessed - and it can’t just be new buzz words or renaming D&I.

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Wow kinda inconvenient.

She planned on leaving her position two months before Apple pledged the 100m. These two things are not related. Now you don’t have to click on the article.

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Cook probably advised him to allocate the funds to stock buybacks 😂

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