diversity hire
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diversity hires
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Ms Gayle, who played student Fiona Wilson, said she was never labelled a "diversity hire", and that her character "just existed" naturally within the show.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
Enter Kaling’s Molly Patel, a diversity hire describing herself as “a vibrant splash of color on the gray canvas of our writing staff.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2019
In the show’s original conception, Dre was the diversity hire on a network sitcom, which Barris based on “Listen Up.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2016
Still, Barris had his own diversity hire, whose salary was drawn, in part, from a Disney corporate fund: Damilare Sonoiki, nicknamed Dam, a twenty-four-year-old African-American Harvard alumnus and former Lampoon editor.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2016
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