Exclusive: Corporate America’s retreat from DEI has eliminated thousands of jobs

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Candace Byrdsong Williams has been a manager, a director, and a "global head" of diversity for large and small employers, mostly in the tech industry, since 2007. She was laid off last August and she has seen companies abruptly take down job postings for anything diversity-related.

“I just didn’t think it would take this long,” one veteran head of diversity, who’s been job-hunting since last summer, tells NPR.

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