SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell sent a company-wide email on Friday to clarify CEO Elon Musk's declaration about Juneteenth.
, with three women of color being appointed in place of co-founder and former NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver.
As a follow-up to my communication two weeks ago, I met with some of our Black employees to hear directly from them about their experiences at work. I also heard in the follow [sic] discussions that the injustices that our Black employees are experiencing extend to other minority employees. Micro-aggressions all the way to explicit race-based name calling and other intolerable aggressive behaviors occur here and this is completely not OK.
Last year we made bias training mandatory for all people leaders. We are now making bias training mandatory for all employees. The Diversity & Inclusion and Training team will work on a strategy to to scale in-person sessions across the company, at all sites in addition to the existing online training. Stay tuned for local communication on next steps. [Ed. link redacted]
We are kicking off a minority mentorship program. We have seen success in our Women's Network mentorship program and we are excited to expand that.
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