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Diversity in Publishing in the Age of Black Lives Matter

While recent efforts are encouraging, publishing needs to establish permanent methods to give people of color more opportunities.

“Another problem, David Unger (CCNY PCP) said, is that big publishers send PCP grads to their Human Resource department’s internship portals, which pits PCP grads against applicants from programs at Columbia, Stanford, Denver, and NYU. “The problem is that when the house’s editors, designers, and marketers see résumés from Stanford and the University of Chicago, we know what will happen,” Unger said. “We need HR to advocate for our students, who need mentoring and some hand-holding when you’re the first brown face to work in a department.”