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That's where she lost me. Every vendor I've worked with from the valley was rarely white and about half the time male. Admittedly a small sample set but still...

Agreed. I haven't heard of companies outside tech that put the same amount of efforts into DEI. It's not only sham programs either, many companies are putting diversity above performance when it comes to hiring/promotions (not judging this either way, just stating the facts).

DEI is newspeak for "we're not actually going to change anything, but we'll talk a whole lot about diversity while we're in the process of not changing anything".