{"id":4702,"date":"2022-04-14T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2022-04-14T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:58:00","slug":"lacy-deberry-iii-named-director-of-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/lacy-deberry-iii-named-director-of-diversity-equity-and-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacy DeBerry, III Named Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lacy DeBerry speaks as Mayor Kapszukiewicz looks on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz announced the appointment of Lacy DeBerry, III as the new director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion during a press conference on Wednesday, April 6.<\/p>\n

DeBerry arrives in Toledo from Greensboro, NC, where he was a human resources consultant since 2007, bringing 25 years of experience in government providing human resources and educational services.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe we need a good mix of local talent, those with local perspectives \u2026 but it is also important to bring in ne faces who can look at problems with a new set of eyes,\u201d said the mayor during his introduction. \u201cLacy comes from outside of the community and doesn\u2019t have a natural link here. In Lacy, we are confident we have the right fit and he will love the city as much as we love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his time with the City of Greensboro, DeBerry was responsible for handling employee complaints, investigating discrimination charges, and providing technical assistance to executive leadership concerning policy implementation.<\/p>\n

DeBerry graduated from Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, NC with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Urban Affairs. In 2020, DeBerry graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Government, Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

He has been involved with the Triad Chapter of NFBPA since 2008, and has presented at Forums 2010- 2012, 2019- 2020. He is a 2012-13 Executive Leadership Institute (ELI) graduate and served as the president of the Triad chapter from 2015-17. DeBerry is a graduate of Foundations of Management and Leadership Edge. Currently, he is an instructor in the Foundations of Policy.<\/p>\n

DeBerry started his new position on April 4 but noted that he had already gotten a sense of some of the issues he will face, and the work that has preceded him in his new office.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing some things in Toledo that I\u2019m just pleased with and we want to continue the momentum,\u201d he said without getting into details. He did, however, address the fact that he is aware that a number of community groups and organizations have departments or offices of diversity, equity and inclusion in place and that he hopes to collaborate with such offices \u2013 a point also emphasized by the mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an active network of DEI professionals and we want to coordinate a little better,\u201d said Kapszukiewicz.<\/p>\n

The mayor added that one of the reasons that DeBerry was such an appealing candidate for the position was his place of work \u2013 the South. \u201cIn this work, at this time, for 20 years he has worked in the Deep South \u2013 an old Confederate state. \u201cHis experience and perspective is important.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Truth Staff Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz announced the appointment of Lacy DeBerry, III as the new director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion during a press conference on Wednesday, April 6. DeBerry arrives in Toledo from Greensboro, NC, where he was a human resources consultant since 2007, bringing 25 years of experience in government providing human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[115],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4704,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}