After DEI: Imagining A Different Future for Race-Based Policies
Date: Friday, June 13, 2025
Time: 1:15 - 3:00 PM
Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave. Elebash Recital Hall.
Join us for sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield's lecture on DEI, inequality, and the workplace. This event is the closing lecture in our annual "Inequality by the Numbers" workshop.
In the wake of organized backlash and federal opposition, many organizations are taking steps to downplay or dismantle their existing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programming. This stance has prompted disputes over DEI’s effectiveness, shortcomings, and potential. Adia Harvey Wingfield argues that in an increasingly diverse, multiracial society, the more important question is not whether DEI has value, but what will follow it. Organizational behavior will have heightened significance as work becomes both more automated and more relational, thus producing new ways of maintaining racial hierarchies. To resolve this, she considers various factors that precipitated attacks on DEI and suggests that rethinking policy orientations can help close racial gaps in rapidly changing workplaces.
Hosted by the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.
