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Mellody Hobson

Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments

United States · b. 1969

Joined Ariel Investments in 1991 and became its president in 2000 and co-chief executive in 2019. She has chaired the boards of DreamWorks Animation and Starbucks.

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Recorded · On the billboard

We cannot afford to be color blind. We have to be color brave. We have to be willing, as teachers and parents and entrepreneurs and scientists, we have to be willing to have proactive conversations about race with honesty and understanding and courage, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the smart thing to do, because our businesses and our products and our science, our research, all of that will be better with greater diversity.

If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why? TED2014, 20 March 2014 source

What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong?

You see, researchers have coined this term "color blindness" to describe a learned behavior where we pretend that we don't notice race. If you happen to be surrounded by a bunch of people who look like you, that's purely accidental. Now, color blindness, in my view, doesn't mean that there's no racial discrimination, and there's fairness. It doesn't mean that at all. It doesn't ensure it. In my view, color blindness is very dangerous because it means we're ignoring the problem.

Recorded TED2014, 20 March 2014 source

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