The Obama Foundation's Marquis Miller on Creating Pathways For empowerment

By National Urban League
Published03 PM EDT, Wed May 15, 2024
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The DEI leader shares his thoughts on aiming for a ‘better, fresher approach to advancing minority economic development’

By Marquis Miller

Ad Age is marking Black History Month 2023 with our third-annual Honoring Creative Excellence package. (Read the introduction here.) Today, our guest editor JinJa Birkenbeuel turns the spotlight to Marquis Miller, VP of diversity, equity and inclusion at the Obama Foundation.

Here, Miller shares his thoughts on aiming for a better approach to advancing minority economic development.

I am fortunate to have experienced many pivotal moments in my career that placed me on a critical path toward true, authentic diversity, equity and inclusion. A move to Chicago as UNCF vice president of the Midwest region transitioned me into a new opportunity for change.

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