“I was in those spaces where I was told to my face that they would never have a diversity and inclusion coordinator,' Leahtommi said, 'after I was furloughed, they actually asked me to come back at a significant raise to be a diversity person.'
The environmentalist Leah Thomas went viral for the first time in 2016, when she published an article on her LinkedIn profile titled “Casual Racism and Political Discussion in St. Louis Private School.” At that time, Thomas was 21 years old, and living in Orange County, California where she was studying environmental science and policy at Chapman University.
“During Ferguson, I had to remove a lot of peers from Facebook who called black people ‘animals’ and when I questioned them about it, replied, ‘Well, not you, Leah,’” Thomas wrote in her post, referencing the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, which occurred in Ferguson, Missouri—located just three miles away from Florissant. “Some of my classmates [saw] Black people as less than human.
Thomas had been furloughed from her position at Patagonia, where she worked in the marketing department. In these and other “top-tier environmental spaces,” Thomas noted that her and other people of color’s requests for both public-facing and internal acknowledgement that “our lives mattered at this organization and in the environmental movement,” never happened.
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