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Brian Smith as vice president, human resources and inclusion.
Smith comes to the BSO from the Enterprise Community Foundation in Washington and assumed his new duties Jan. 11.
Smith will administer HR policies, programs, procedures, and guidelines to help foster, support, and engage the BSO’s workforce in alignment with our strategic plan and its four tenets of Culture, Capital, Capacity, and Community. Smith will provide innovative leadership and management oversight to promote, champion, and sustain equity and inclusion at the BSO – developing institutional policies, practices, and programs that both increase racial literacy and cultural responsiveness among BSO employees, as well as respect, value, and respond to the needs of our greater community. He will serve as a dedicated co-chair of a staff Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) workgroup, working closely with other rotating staff leadership, and as a member of a recently formed DEI Committee of the Board.