The study from the ‘me too.’ examines how the economic crisis caused by the pandemic is having disproportionate impacts on women of color who are also survivors of sexual and/or intimate partner violence.

“Women of color should be able to pitch to people who look like them on the other side of the table,” says Arian Simone of the Fearless Fund

Citigroup global economist Dana Peterson, a Black woman, researched “how gaps between Black and white Americans eat into economic output.”

Microsoft responded: “We also have affirmative obligations as a company that serves the federal government to continue to increase the diversity of our workforce.”

The landmark racial justice legislation is “proving a paradigm that we hope will be resonant all across the United States,” said California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.