The Recording Academy has named former Google executive valeisha as its first chief diversity & inclusion officer
Valeisha Butterfield Jones attends the 2019 Girlboss Rally at UCLA on June 30, 2019 in Los Angeles.
Butterfield Jones formerly served as the global head of inclusion for Google, Inc. Before that, she was the national youth vote director for's 2012 Obama for America presidential election campaign and deputy director of public affairs for international trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Obama administration.
In December, the academy's diversity & inclusion task force released its final report, which included a recommendation that the organization hire a diversity & inclusion officer at the executive level by May 1, 2020. The academy made it right under the wire with its April 30 announcement, though the organization has had to deal with two unforeseen crises since that date was set -- the sudden dismissal of"This is something we've been working on since December,” Mason says.
Butterfield Jones said in a statement,"The Recording Academy has honored their commitment and I’m proud to join them on this journey... I’m deeply inspired by the opportunity to shape a new industry standard of representation, inclusion and action."
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