What I’m most excited about at cars.com is all the important work that the company has done around diversity, equity, and inclusion. Not just when George Floyd was murdered. Not just when Amhaud Arbery was murdered. Not just when Brianna Taylor was murdered, but the stuff they were doing when I walked in the door more than three years ago. Making sure there was equitable pay across the organization and having a diverse board.
Cars.com is a marketplace that connects buyers and sellers. We’re a technology company, and we’re an auto company. These two industries are not diverse at all. Not ethnic and historically driven by men. Despite this, we have a company that looks at equitable pay and holds itself accountable to diversity targets at the board level, the leadership level, and throughout the entire organization. Cars.com is a company I respect because that work was already happening and taking place when I walked in the door.
2020 was a heck of a year for all of us. Racial and social injustice on top of a pandemic, on top of an election. I am really proud that I got to use my voice and the seat on which I sit. I got to lead so many diversity efforts last year, centered around having conversations across the company and allowing our employee resource groups to help lead those conversations about ally-ism. We call it ‘Conversations at Cars’.
We have a conversation about the thing you can do to be an ally, the actions you can take to help clean up our communities, the steps you can follow to start your activism. Something allies really wanted to have a conversation about. _They wanted to know where they overstepped and how they could help. We had those real conversations around unconscious bias and how to start being an ally. THIS PARAGRAPH IS A BIT CONFUSING(We may remove it).
