Diversity isn’t an item on a bucket list
Guest Columnist
Roquita Coleman-Williams
Roquita Coleman-Williams is a member of the Memphis Area Transit Authority Board of Commissioners and former president of the Memphis World Trade Club. She became a certified train conductor in her role as a solutions manager for Canadian National Railway.
'My insight on diversity had come from experience as the diverse candidate or double minority. My experience had come as a benefactor of diverse hiring initiatives that opened doors that would have otherwise been closed to someone like me.'
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