Diversity means different things to different people. When it’s the focus of your life, job, and energies, the meaning of diversity takes on a particular significance.
In the case of Joelle Hayes, it took her to Travelers in Hartford where she is director of diversity.
Hayes, 33, a Middletown resident and mother of two was recently hired for the newly formed position that deals with components of human resources including recruitment and retention. It’s just the latest task she has undertaken involving diversity.
“I grew up on Long Island and back in the 80s, the thinking was that public schools were racially balanced when it was split half-and-half, black and white,” she said. “The diversity we see today is very different.”
Hayes graduated from Brown University with a degree in public policy and went on to receive a master’s in education from Harvard University. She has since received a second master’s degree from Syracuse University in communication management.
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