HFPA’s New Chief Diversity Officer Says Tainted Group’s Reforms Aren’t “Window Dressing”; Pledges Industry Outreach In Time
“Honestly, when I look across our country and see what diversity, equity and inclusion is demanding of organizations across the country, there’s so much of how the HFPA has been approaching this that I think is really wonderful,” new Hollywood Foreign Press Association chief diversity officer Neil Phillips says of the much tainted Golden Globes-presenting group. “I mean this is an organization that got called out because of missteps, transgression, and deservedly so. They should have been, and then they have responded.”