The group's new executive director laid off the whole equity team.
in January. “Those include, absolutely, issues of gender, as well as racial equity and also pay equity.”But today, the 131-year-old group is in turmoil over its approach to diversity, equity and environmental justice, according to interviews with 12 current and former staffers,
The tumult intensified in April and May, when the group’s new leadership laid off more than two dozen employees, many of whom were people of color, as part of what Jealous has called a broader “, which represented about 400 Sierra Club staffers before the layoffs, more than 30 of its members lost their jobs.
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