Black Excellence: Verna Myers '82BC

Photo by: Laurie Bell Bishop

1/21/2021 11:00:00 AM | General, Women's Basketball

Named the Vice President for Inclusion Strategy at Netflix, Verna Myers, a Columbia Women's Basketball alumna, talks about how she is using her platform at Netflix to further combat systemic racism.

By: Courtesy of Barnard College

NEW YORK - As the vice president for inclusion strategy at Netflix, Vernā Myers '82BC guides how the entertainment company thinks about cultural diversity, inclusion, and equality in all its operations worldwide, across more than 190 countries and 9,000 employees. It's a big job, but it's one Myers is well equipped to tackle.

A snapshot of Myers' career shows how valuable her insights are. After majoring in political science at Barnard, she earned a degree from Harvard Law School, and in 1992, as the first executive director of the Boston Law Firm Group, Myers started advising law firms on recruiting and retaining attorneys of color. Since founding the Vernā Myers Company in 1997, the inclusion strategist has worked with organizations to eradicate barriers based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other differences with the aim of establishing a new, more productive, and equitable status quo.

Read more here.