Advocating within our community for the principles and practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion

We are working to remedy the perception that our region is unwelcoming towards various minority groups. This perception has contributed toward an overall decline in population, which in turn has negatively hindered the region’s future economic development. The Alliance will provide DEI-related technical assistance to “regional enterprises” that will ultimately attract and retain young professionals as well as present our region as welcoming and inclusive.

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Our geographic footprint

The Alliance will focus its efforts on the eight counties of northeast Tennessee (Washington, Carter, Sullivan, Unicoi, Hawkins, Greene, Hancock, and Johnson) and four counties in southwest Virginia (Lee, Scott, Washington and Wise).

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Who is the Alliance?

Volunteers will oversee the work of the Alliance. A fifteen-member, all-volunteer Board of Directors governs the Alliance. And, three, volunteer-run committees (Programs, Development, and Marketing/Communications) will focus on programming, communications, and resource development.

The Development committee operates the fundraising activities for the Alliance.

The Programs committee defines and operates all the programming activities of the Alliance. That is, they will determine what products and services will be designed, developed and offered within our community (e.g., the SAFE program, DEI Corp Coaching, DEI Assessments, etc.).

The Marketing & Communications Committee manages the Alliance’s brand, all external communication activities of the Alliance. This includes effective use of traditional media and social media so that the Alliance has effective communications with a broad collection of stakeholders in our community.

Meet our board