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A couple of weeks after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May, Kwende Kefentse, a policy research and developer at the City of Ottawa, sat down for a video conference with his coworkers to discuss diversity and the jarring lack of it in his department, cultural services.
One question dominated the conversation: What should the unit do about the homogeneity of its majority-white workforce?
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“I found the discussion maybe disingenuous in some ways,” said Kefentse, 39, who last fall left his job after 11 years to serve as the new executive director at CKCU-FM.