Stanford Center for Racial Justice Appoints Crystal Milo as Project Manager for Corporate Governance and Racial Equity Project
The Stanford Center for Racial Justice (SCRJ or Center) is excited to announce the appointment of Crystal Milo as the Project Manager for our Corporate Governance and Racial Equity (CGRE) project, effective February 14, 2022. Crystal will work to advance our project to collect data from a large swath of companies relating to their efforts concerning racial equity and report on that data. She will also help us evaluate various approaches to benchmarking corporate efforts concerning racial equity. Crystal will report to the Executive Director, George Brown.
Crystal’s extensive experience in corporate governance and board diversity research will serve as an important foundation to help SCRJ pursue its goals to advance racial justice in corporate settings. Crystal began her career in corporate governance work as a research associate analyzing proxy filings for shareholder meetings held at US-traded corporations at Glass Lewis and Co. (Glass Lewis), a proxy advisory firm. She later became the Director of US Research for Glass Lewis where she helped lead Glass Lewis’s increased scrutiny of diversity disclosures by public companies. Crystal also designed and implemented research on board level diversity, interviewing scores of companies, directors, and C-level officers. She helped author and publish a comprehensive report exploring her findings and Glass Lewis’s recommendations concerning DEI disclosure and market practices of companies in the S&P 500. Read more about Crystal’s report: Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the Boardroom.
In addition to Crystal’s full-time work, she previously served as Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for Financial Women of San Francisco. Crystal helped improve the interview process for scholarships and diversified the organization’s membership to reflect Bay Area demographics. She also chaired the International Development Exchange Young Professionals Group (now Thousand Currents), helping to fundraise for the organization.
It is with great enthusiasm and joy that SCRJ welcomes Crystal to our team!