From the Guest

“As DEI officer, I think it’s important to give people those tools and to be as transparent as possible because these things did happen, and we can only grow if everyone knows that they happened.”

“Just having a diversity course should be like a core requirement. You are not leaving the Hussman school until you are educated on how to be an effective reporter or PR person for all these different communities that you are gonna interact with.” -Alexis Jamison 21:29

From the Guests

“To be able to make a decent living, you have to find a niche that you can plug yourself into. Our niche here is that we went completely Asian produce, and rice, and Asian fruits. That’s our niche here in this community; it’s something that no one else is doing.” - Chue Lee

From the Guests

“Eventually, I realized how unique my culture was and how it is something very valuable.”--Gwen  (10:30-10:36)

From the guests

“It's interesting to see with the last couple movies that have come out how things are changing.” -- Emily Thoreson, Journalism Student at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media 

“At the time, as a kid, I didn’t think that much about diversity, you know, I didn’t think much about race. I knew Spiderman looked different than me.” Chase Cofield, Journalism Student at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

“Oftentimes when we see Asian actors and actresses portrayed they’re really only interacting with other Asian actors and actresses. They’re kind of in their own bubble and they’re not really with people who look different from them.” Yukiko Nakano, Journalism Student at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

From the guests

“There aren’t a shortage of people of color who want to play these games, it’s just a matter of actually casting them. I hope mandates like the one at CBS show other networks that having more diverse casts only make the shows better so that the change is about to come about organically on other networks and platforms.”  — Naeha Prabhu

“I think the word mandate just adds this element of force and I never want to feel like anything in my work is forced. But in the end, what I want is for our backstage and onstage casts to be diverse. To give a voice to people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, and any other underrepresented groups, in the way that they deserve and have deserved for so long. If a casting mandate will get us there, then I am all for it.” — Olivia DeRienzo

From the guests...

“I think that good and quality representation should obviously be nuanced. As for characteristics I definitely think if you’re going to represent some identity that there should be someone who identifies as that involved in the production. I think a lot of the time good representation can give you insight into a different facet of that person’s lived experience that you wouldn’t have considered otherwise.”  --Bronwyn Campbell

“Definitely media has that obligation [to show representation], because ...all media is a reflection, or sometimes most of it is a critique on society. Why would you not include people that exist like all of these people, and these communities exist?”  --Mari Fabian