Diversity Management, News and Updates
Originally published on about.att.com. The Whitacre Award, AT&T’s top honor, was given to the members of a team in California for their leadership and community-before-self attitudes. These employees went to heroic lengths to avert disaster or provide service in extreme situations. Learn more about their accomplishments below. California Team Restores…
AT&T’s (No. 1 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list and No. 2 on the Top Companies for Employee Resource Groups specialty list) African American employee resource group (ERG) The NETwork Black Integrated Communications Professionals has been around for 50 years. The LEAGUE at AT&T, Inc., the company’s…
AT&T (No. 1 on DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity) has named Debra L. Lee — who formerly served as BET Networks’ chairperson and CEO — to its board of directors. During Lee’s time leading BET from 2006 until her retirement in 2009, she increased the network’s budget by 50%…
Juanita Harris, Assistant Vice President on the Senior Legal Counsel of AT&T (no. 1 on 2019 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) just received the National Bar Association Women Lawyers Division’s Outstanding Corporate Counsel award. AT&T will ascend to DiversityInc’s Top 50 Hall of Fame (HoF). The Women Lawyers Division…
Originally posted on ATT.com Congratulations to this year’s winners, using creativity to combat distracted driving The mission of the It Can Wait program is clear- reduce distracted driving by educating all drivers about the dangers of smartphone use behind the wheel. It’s a goal shared by Project Yellow Light, a leading scholarship competition…
For the third consecutive year, AT&T and Tribeca Film Festival conducted the “AT&T Presents: Untold Stories” film competition. Filmmaker Kate Tsang was awarded the $1 million prize for her project, “Marvelous and the Black Hole,” and will receive mentorship from seasoned industry professionals to develop her pitch into a feature-length…
Emerging Filmmakers from Diverse, Underrepresented Communities to Create Five Short Films Originally Published by AT&T. Launched in 2017, the program seeks to discover, incubate and empower emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities to evolve their work, grow their audience and provide national distribution on platforms such as DIRECTV and DIRECTV NOW….
During the DiversityInc Top 50 event on May 7 in New York City, Carolynn Johnson, CEO of DiversityInc, sat down with Randall Stephenson, Chairman and CEO of AT&T, (No. 1), to discuss diversity and inclusion. “It starts with it’s the right thing to do,” Stephenson said to open the conversation…
AT&T earned first place on the 2019 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list, which was announced at its keystone diversity and inclusion event held at Cipriani Wall Street on Tuesday, May 7. Rounding out this year’s Top 10 companies are: Marriott International, Inc. (2); ADP (3); Hilton (4); Eli…
AT&T awards filmmaker for her winning script at third Untold Stories event. Originally Published by AT&T. Kate Tsang has a story to tell. And AT&T just awarded her $1 million to help tell it. Tsang is the third filmmaker to receive a $1 million grant from AT&T Presents: Untold Stories. An…