{"id":9635,"date":"2021-11-15T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/11\/qa-with-yendelela-neely-holston-a-2021-diversity-equity-inclusion-awards-honoree\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:44:34","slug":"qa-with-yendelela-neely-holston-a-2021-diversity-equity-inclusion-awards-honoree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/qa-with-yendelela-neely-holston-a-2021-diversity-equity-inclusion-awards-honoree\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A with Yendelela Neely Holston, a 2021 Diversity, Equity &#038; Inclusion Awards honoree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yendelela Neely Holston, chief diversity and inclusion officer and partner at Kilpatrick Townsend &amp; Stockton LLP, has been named a Top Diversity &amp; Inclusion Officer honoree in Atlanta Business Chronicle&#8217;s 2021 Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion Awards.<\/p>\n<p>A Furman University Board of Trustees member, Holston goes on record in an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/news\/2021\/11\/08\/q-a-kilpatrick-townsend-yendelela-holston-de-i.html\">Atlanta Business Chronicle<\/a><\/strong> Q&amp;A, where she tackles questions about leadership, her passion for DEI, Atlanta&#8217;s DEI challenges, and the future of DEI. About the latter, she said, &#8220;My hope is that we stop working from the false premise that we all receive an equal shot in life and start working toward making it a reality. This will take frank and honest discussion, deep introspection, acceptance of unpleasant truths, and innovative approaches to fixing long broken systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yendelela Neely Holston, chief diversity and inclusion officer and partner at Kilpatrick Townsend &amp; Stockton LLP, has been named a Top Diversity &amp; Inclusion Officer honoree in Atlanta Business Chronicle&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,6],"tags":[1174,124,657,490],"class_list":["post-9635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","category-in-the-news","tag-atlanta","tag-dei","tag-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","tag-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}