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Publisher’s Note

PUBLISHER
ROBIN DILLARD 2020: Building on
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the Promise
EDITOR
MELISSA LOWERY
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I am feeling a heightened sense of
CREATIVE DIRECTOR gratitude at this dawn of a new decade.
CIMON CHEN
Our BEQ Pride Family will be celebrat-
ART DIRECTOR ing an important milestone in 2020 —
JUSTIN OGLEBY our fifth-year of Engaging! Empowering!
Justin@imdesigngroup.com and Accelerating! LGBTQ+ Business
Equality. We are excited about the future, but before we get there, we
SALES
TRACY SKINNER are rethinking supplier diversity, revisiting old friends, rewarding our
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and Inclusion — poised for what’s to come.
WRITERS We’re starting off the new year with Editor in Chief Melissa
RYANN BROOKS Lowery’s interview with Kris Oswold from UPS. After reading Kris’s
KASSAUNDRA SHANETTE LOCKHART recent blog post, entitled “Are we doing enough? An insider’s view of
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business inclusion”, which asked such a timely and important question
CONTRIBUTORS about the state of supplier diversity, we wanted a deeper understand-
LYNN C . REYES ing of her findings and next steps. What she shares with us is brilliant
DR . STEVE YACOVELLI and insightful — thought-leadership at its best, an opportunity to reca-
librate for more impactful results.
PHOTOGRAPHERS
AMY MAYES PHOTOGRAPHY We have the magnificent Amber Hikes as our cover feature.
ROBERT DODGE PHOTOGRAPHY Amber, an exemplar of LGBTQ-excellence and part of the inaugural
LGBTQ Leaders Under 40 Class of 2018, skyrocketed her career
and influence over the past few years. She recently graced the plenary
stage at the OUT&EQUAL Workplace Summit in conversation
with American screenwriter, producer and actress Lena Waithe. Her
introductory remarks were a reminder of what her mother called a
“generosity of leadership”.
We wanted to catch up with her since she’s taken on her new role
at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as the organization’s
first Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer. We are proud of her achieve-
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