our Tech Check Plus live stream interview. I'm so excited to be joined out by META's chief diversity

officer, Maxine, Williams, Maxine. Thank you so much for being with us today. Right. Thanks so much for

having me. So Maxine, you just unveiled the report, the annual report that goes through some of your

progress in the diversity space in the DEI space at the company.

Give us the top line results. What kind of progress have you seen in the past year?

The top line is that we are a remarkably more diverse, more inclusive, and more equitable company today than we were even five years ago.

So for instance, three years ago, we set a five-year goal to double the number of women

at the company globally, to double the number of black people in the US, to double the number

of Hispanic people in the US, and we've now beat that goal two years ahead of time.

We also set goals to increase the number of people of color and leadership.

And as an example, we said we would increase by 30% over five-year period.

We are now at 44% increase in black leadership alone within the first two or three years of

setting that goal.

So what you're seeing in the report is a lot of progress in every category that we measure.

One of the ones that, you know, people tend to talk less about, but it's something I feel

deeply passionate about, is how many people with disabilities work at meta.

I think if the world knew how many people build these amazing products who are people

who live with disabilities.

It would change how they see these people. It would change the stigma, these stereotypes.

And we've seen since we've been focused on this, an increase from 3.9% people are going to 6.2%.

So you're just seeing much more diversity. And the point of that is to have enough people with

different perspectives and backgrounds and ideas who can build the products that our diverse consumers,

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