4 steps diversity and inclusion consultants recommend for hiring more Black and brown employees — and keeping them long term

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have gone from empty buzzwords to well financed initiatives within companies across the country. Industry leaders — from Google to JPMorgan — are investing in internal and external programs to promote racial equity. Leaders are hiring more DEI executives and promising more workplace diversity within the next few years.

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Doris Quintanilla, executive director and cofounder of The Melanin Collective, a DEI consultancy, said companies are at real risk of only achieving part of diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

"Since Trump's election, I've seen hiring of people of color in different organizations, but I don't see them staying or being happy because we're not treating them like the human beings that they are. They're still tokens, they're tokenized," she said. 

Being tokenized is "the practice of doing something (such as hiring a person who belongs to a minority group) only to prevent criticism and give the appearance that people are being treated fairly," per Merriam Webster.

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