Letter from Evan, Oona & Arun
In last year’s Diversity Annual Report we noted “it is likely to get harder before it gets easier.” But we couldn't imagine how hard it would get, and how different the world would be. The war in Ukraine and economic uncertainty combined in a perfect storm, leaving the tech industry — including Snap — facing extraordinary headwinds. This different world shaped the questions we asked in 2022: how do we operationalize DEI with fewer resources, set against a more challenging backdrop? How do we embed DEI at the heart of our business, while our business sharpens its focus on essentials? What are critical DEI priorities to protect? Making DEI a business imperative requires a paradigm shift in thinking. Instead of asking “what DEI tasks should we add to our urgent to-do list?” we must continue to ask “how do we introduce a DEI lens to all our work?”