Tennis champion Serena Williamswas front and center on the red carpet before taking the stage to speak at The Fast Company Innovation Festival in NYC yesterday.
Making her way down the carpet, the 21-time Grand Slam winner posed it up with NIKE CEO Mark Parker and Fast Company Editor-in-Chief Robert Safian.
In an interview with The Fast Company before the panel, the gorgeous and super talented Ava opened up and gives the raw truth on how she feels about the word “diversity." She actually dislikes the word and prefers using the word "inclusion." During the chat, she revealed why she doesn’t really like using the word saying it has become something "medicinal.”
“When we’re talking about diversity, it’s not a box to check. Diversity is not one in the room. Diversity is not two in the room. Diversity is not three in the room. True diversity is half the room," DuVernay says.
Ava then goes into why she was offended with a clip that was shown about screenwriters right before a screening of the movie 007 thriller Spectre recently. She said there was not ONE person of color in the clip and that proves we aren’t really thinking about inclusion.
She said, “These are the kinds of things that if people that see it don’t speak up, they never change," she says. "I sit there and I think, Something’s wrong with this…there are a lot of people that look a different way that weren’t included in that who also have something to say about that topic."
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