Steffi Wu
steffiwu.bsky.social
Steffi Wu
@steffiwu.bsky.social
Occupation: Head of Communications at Benchling. Preoccupations: Warriors 🏀, life in SF 🌉, food of all kinds 🌯🍜🍪
Reposted by Steffi Wu
If you can just drop your DEI goals, or DEI initiatives, they were never really part of the fabric, the DNA of your company. They were add-ons.

They were just performative, not transformative.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Accenture Abandons Diversity Targets Citing Trump’s Orders
Accenture Plc, the professional services firm with nearly 800,000 employees around the world, is abandoning its diversity targets after US President Donald Trump ordered his administration to push pri...
www.bloomberg.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Reposted by Steffi Wu
Every headline that does not say “illegal” or “unconstitutional” is a failure to convey to the public the stakes of what is going on.
February 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Reposted by Steffi Wu
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.

Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM