Interactive: How Diverse Is The City Of Fort Worth's Staff?

Arlington TX

10 May, 2022

8:52 PM

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By Emily Wolf, Fort Worth Report May 10, 2022 The city of Fort Worth's goal is that its workforce reflect the diversity of the community. Numbers released by the city manager's office show that, despite improvements, people of color still are underrepresented. Dianna Giordano, the city's human resources director, was available to City Council on May 3 to explain the statistics showing the change in staff demographics over a 10-year period, but no council member asked any questions. The city does not have specific demographic quotas but is actively working to recruit applicants who embody the growing diversity in Fort Worth, said Giordano, who has been in her position for a little under a year. To help make sense of the data, The Report analyzed and visualized the statistics on ethnicity and residency. To learn more about a statistic, hover your cursor – or thumb for mobile devices – over the bars in each graph. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.