Exposing Anti-White Harassment + Discrimination in US Media Companies
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She Runs It (and She Runs It Foundation)
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sherunsit.org
TYPE: 501(c)(6) non-profit business league (and 501(c)(3) public charity)
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS: -
OWNER: Operating Board
2021 REVENUE (501 (c)(6): $573,246
Revenue filings are missing for 2022, 2023, and 2024
U.S. HEADCOUNT: 12
89-12 70th Ave
Forest Hills, NY 11375
info@sherunsit.org
Cheri Carpenter
cheri@sherunsit.org
+1 212 221 7969
She Runs It, a non-profit led by CEO Lynn Branigan (a White woman) and guided by Foundation Board Chair Renetta McCann (Publicis Groupe, a Black woman)* and the Equity and Inclusion Advisory Council (including Black woman Ronnie Dickerson Stewart, Black man Jason Dawayne Smith, and Black woman Carol Watson), promotes DEI** initiatives like #Inclusive100 in partnership with Seramount, which may expose participating companies in the marketing, media, and ad tech industries to legal risks under EEOC, Title VII, and NYSHRL (§ 296) standards for potentially discriminating against White employees and applicants. The #Inclusive100 initiative, championed by Branigan, emphasizes measuring racial and ethnic representation and advocates for practices such as mandatory diverse interview slates (adopted by 79% of surveyed companies in 2023) and expanded recruitment pools to reflect demographic diversity, which could function as de facto quotas or lead to race-based hiring decisions that disadvantage White candidates, risking claims of reverse discrimination. Additionally, She Runs It's endorsement of DEI training, including unconscious bias programs used by partners, may foster hostile work environments for White employees if it promotes stereotypes or collective blame, potentially violating EEOC anti-harassment guidelines and NYSHRL. She Runs It embeds DEI into its core operations through programs like the Education Loan Grant Program, the START Accelerator for women of color (non-White women), and Multicultural Bootcamps (which include “Building your Inclusivity IQ”), all aimed at addressing “systemic inequities”. Its leadership, including Nadia McDowell (Senior Director, Northeast Membership & Inclusive Programming, a Black woman) and the Advisory Council, drives an agenda that prioritizes corporate DEI metrics over potential legal pitfalls, necessitating scrutiny to ensure compliance with federal and New York anti-discrimination laws and to hold companies accountable for practices that may harass or discriminate against White individuals.
*Renetta McCann is Chief Inclusion Experience Officer at Publicis Groupe, whose subsidiary company Saatchi & Saatchi has been accused of overt, top-down, anti-White racism in legal court. Publicis Groupe removed Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Geraldine White (a Black woman, like McCann) along with sizable parts of its DEI teams across the holding company and its agencies late last year, igniting discussions regarding the trajectory of DEI efforts at Publicis and within the wider industry. McCann’s exact role in enacting Publicis Groupe’s DEI intitiatives is currently unclear. McCann believes that tangible DEI advancement necessitates measurable outcomes, and implements the tracking of representation, retention, and supplier diversity metrics in her work.
**DEI "equity" involves prioritizing certain racial, gender, or identity groups with targeted resources or opportunities to ensure equal outcomes at the cost of fairness and individual merit. DEI’s equity focus shares some similarities with communism and socialism in its group-based, redistributive approach, and with totalitarianism in ideological coercion.
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It is illegal and contrary to public policy for any organization, including nonprofits, to instruct companies on discriminatory or harassing practices, potentially resulting in serious legal and financial repercussions such as lawsuits for facilitating discrimination, reputational harm, loss of IRS tax-exempt status, and investigations by state and federal civil rights authorities.
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