In the summer of 2019 NORC decided to greatly accelerate its efforts at DREI in our workplace by creating and implementing short and long-term strategies that ensure that we not only embrace racial diversity across the organization, but are also consistently equitable and inclusive as it relates to all things in the workplace and in the work that we do.
After an initial pause in investments due to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, we launched the DREI working group whose charge was to develop core objectives for our DREI work and creating a process for accomplishing them.