Our Students, Staff, and Families need the Equity Office If you’ve been reading the news in the last two weeks, it is pretty clear that political rhetoric pertaining to “DEI hires” has become code for efforts to roll back qualified women, Black, Hispanic, disabled, and Veteran hires. On social media, anti-DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) rhetoric is frequently unleashed against non-white, non-male, disabled, non-straight, non-cis, and/or non-Christian people in leadersh