Yellen Met With Racial Equality Leaders At Her First Meeting

Yellen Met With Racial Equality Leaders At Her First Meeting Appointed as US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen met with racial equality leaders at her first meeting. Yellen, who attended the meeting with her assistant Wally Adeyemo, met online with the leaders of racial and economic equality on Monday afternoon. Janet Yellen, who was appointed as the Treasury minister by the US elected president Joe Biden, met with the leaders of racial and economic equality organizations with her deputy Wally Adeyemo. Yellen and Adeyemo reiterated their statements that they guarantee that they will place inter-racial equality at the center of economic recovery and pointed out that they will focus their attention on the sectors and communities most affected by the epidemic. In the meeting, equality in the policy-making process and the Ministry of Treasury's use of all authority and power to end systemic racism, as well as building an "economy that will benefit everyone" were among the priority issues. Expressing their vision that the Ministry of Treasury should prioritize racial equality more, Yellen and her deputy Adeyemo noted that attention will be paid to structural, cultural and operational changes within the ministry. The leaders of equality organizations who attended the first meeting of Yellen and Adeyemo are as follows: - Communty Change Co-Chair Dorian Warren - Lorella Praeli, Head of Community Change Action - Color of Change President Rashad Robinson - Color of Change Chairman Heather McGhee - Felicia Wong, President of the Roosevelt Institute - David Clunie, Managing Director of Black Economic Alliance - Thea Lee, President of the Economic Policy Institute - Alicia Garza, Founder of Black to the Future Fund - Maurice Mitchell, National Director of Working Families Party