NAB Appoints Chief Diversity Officer
NAB Leadership Foundation President Michelle Duke will become NAB chief diversity officer, the association announced Thursday. Duke will be in charge of internal efforts to “further equity and inclusion at all levels of the organization” and the trade group’s external…
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work to promote industry diversity. Duke will keep her job with the NABLF. “It’s a full plate,” she said in an interview. “One role is no more important than the other.” Duke is the first CDO for NAB, and had other roles within the association that concentrated on improving diversity. She joined in 2005 as director-diversity and development. Duke said she's in preliminary stages of planning what issues she will focus on as CDO, and is interested in “diversity conversations at the board level” and working with NABLF’s Diversity and Inclusion Council, plus creating a similar body for NAB. Experts say organizations must do much to diversify their cultures (see 2006160038).