Charlotte Ashlock
Fighting for social justice online: how can we use the Internet to make the world a better place? Works for nonfiction book publisher as website manager, editor
“Does hiring more diverse people mean lowering the bar?”
Want to Hire More Diverse People? Raise Your Bar.
Joelle Emerson
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I work as an editor at a book publishing company that is concerned with increasing author diversity. This is what comes up in discussions about author diversity as well — people wonder if we’ll have to lower our bar and settle for fewer book sales. It frustrates and angers me because I think authors who manage to succeed on merit (without the help of privilege) are actually the highest quality authors and have the most potential.