Bulletin Walmart Names New VP of Diversity and Inclusion Walmart announced Greg Warren, currently vice president of Creative Marketing with Walmart U.S., will join the Global Office of Diversity as vice president of Diversity and WARREN Inclusion. Warren joined Walmart in 2010 after a career in the advertising, design, and media industries. Since coming to Walmart, he has led many communications campaigns, including the latest ads featuring comparison shopping and highlighting associate opportunity. Several of Warren’s multicultural marketing initiatives have created recognition for Walmart. Warren is a champion for supplier diversity within marketing. Beyond his communications skills, Warren has experience in multiple work environments in the U.S. and Latin America. His global experience and knowledge of multicultural and digital marketing will help the company as it continues to develop diversity initiatives. Outside of work, Warren gives back to the community by serving in leadership positions for several diverse organizations, including the Horizons Health Center and the AIDS Foundation. He also developed the United Nations campaign to prevent HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. PDJ
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$1 Million Gift Establishes Latino Social Work Professorship at USC An anonymous donor has pledged $1 million to the University of Southern California School of Social Work to establish the Cleofas and Victor Ramirez Professor of Practice, Policy, Research, and Advocacy for the Latino Population. The endowment was made in honor of the donor’s parents, a homemaker and field worker who did not have formal educations. However, they strongly believed in the value of education and served as the driving force behind the donor’s success in receiving a master’s in Social Work at USC. The Mexican-American donor wanted to support social work in all its forms in the Latino community. The gift bolsters the school’s commitment to advancing scholarship that supports the well-being of Latinos and promotes informed policymaking. Additionally, it helps attract and retain preeminent faculty, which in turn draws the best students. Marilyn Flynn, dean of the School of Social Work, said the investment only strengthens the school’s research profile supported by some of the nation’s most outstanding Latino and Mexican scholars, which number more than many other schools of social work. She also said she was exceptionally proud of the school’s Latino social work students, who comprise more than a third of its enrollment. Among the school’s current Latino research interests is the National Institute on Drug Abuse-sponsored Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Drug Abuse, a ten-day program designed to support and advance the careers of graduate students and new investigators interested in pursuing drug abuse research, particularly for the Latino community, led by Avelardo Valdez, Charles Kaplan, and Alice Cepeda. The school also houses the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, which advances research that enhances optimal aging of persons in low-income communities. Its executive director, William Vega, is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine who has conducted community and clinical research projects on health, mental health, and substance abuse throughout the United States and Latin America.
September/October 2013