“They are not mad about the letters, they’re mad about the mission. And unless you are changing your mission, you will not ease the attack,” said the former gubernatorial candidate for the state of Georgia on a panel at NYU School of Law on July 11. Abrams now runs America Pride Rises, an organization dedicated to defending and expanding DEI goals.
Despite the spate of DEI rollbacks, and the backtracking on language in particular, Abrams is adamant that these policies are alive and well, although she is clear eyed about what advocates are up against.
“DEI is not dead; it’s not even on life support,” said Abrams. “What it is is under assiduous and aggressive attack because they think that if they can fracture our attention, they can win their fight.”
