At the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, 2019 has been a year of designing a strategy aligned to the Foundation’s new mission, vision, values, and goals towards racial equity. We can also say that 2019 has been a year of reflecting, learning, growing, and transforming for us.
We had the chance to sit down with Ellen Wang, a program officer at NMEF and member of our Equity Leadership Team, to talk about her journey through the foundation’s strategy and equity work.
As I have thought about describing my experiences with racial inequity in America, I wanted to do more than simply talk about the overt signs of bigotry we see in the headlines. It certainly would be easy to point to police violence against young black males and…
