PBS closes DEI office, announces diversity officers are leaving in response to Trump executive orders

PBS excludes it Office for diversity, equality and inclusion (dei) And the diversity officers go away in response to President Donald Trump’s executive commands.

In a statement for Fox News Digital, PBS confirmed the news on Monday.

“In order to best ensure that in accordance with the president’s executive order around the diversity, equality and inclusion, we closed our office dei office.

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President and Executive Director PBS Paul Kerger sent a letter earlier during the day, according to New York Times, informing their colleagues that after working with a legal advisor about Trump’s executive commands at Dei, they decided to close the office.

PBS Executive Director Paul Kerger sent a letter to her colleagues at the exclusion of her dei offices. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

“In order to ensure that we adhere to the president’s executive order, we closed our office dei, and Cecilia Loving and Gina Leow leave PBS. I know you join me in order to wish them well in future efforts,” Kerger wrote.

She continued: “Our mission is to educate, hire and inspire a wide variety of American communities we serve, will still be at the center of our work, and we will continue to ensure that PBS remains a place for welcome for everyone.”

Loving was announced As a senior Vice President for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in 2021, where her job was “identifying the possibilities for the construction of an internal commitment to PBS for Dei”, “collaborate in all departments for assessing current business practices” and “Public Working to support the television system of constant efforts around Dei. “

Leow was also hired in 2021 as a director of diversity, equality and inclusion.

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PBS focused on the Dei initiative of 2021. ((Illustration of photos of Rafael Henrique/Sopa Images/Lightctics via Getty Images))

In his first weeks in power, Trump has signed executive commands Prohibition of dei offices and programs at public universities financed by governments and federally.

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