Twitter hires a new VP to lead its diversity efforts

In line with its goal of having six percent or more underrepresented minorities in leadership roles, Twitter has hired Castleberry Singleton to lead its diversity efforts. “Excited to announce I’m joining @Twitter as the new VP of Inclusion and Diversity. Can’t wait to help build on the company’s great progress!” Singleton said in a tweet on Wednesday.

Excited to welcome @candi to lead our inclusion and diversity efforts @twitter. Welcome to the flock!

— jack (@jack) June 27, 2017

She previously founded the Dignity and Respect Campaign, and formerly led diversity and inclusion efforts at Motorola, Techcrunch.com reported. The microblogging site was making some progress around the hiring of underrepresented minorities, according to its latest diversity report. Overall, Twitter is 57 per cent White, 32 per cent Asian, three per cent Black, four percent Hispanic/Latins, three percent multi-racial, less than one percent American Indian and Native Hawaiian in the US and 37 percent female worldwide, up from 34 percent in 2015, the Techcrunch report said. Twitter Inc had **previously** hired a former Apple Inc employee as its vice president of diversity and inclusion who left . Jeffrey Siminoff, who was previously the director of worldwide inclusion and diversity at Apple had replaced Janet Van Huysse. He had left the company after a year. According to Techcrunch.com, Siminoff had left the company in February. IANS