Stephanie La Rue, chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), visited FIU last month to meet with students and discuss Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts in the U.S. intelligence community as well as how academia can help diverse students enter the national security workforce.
La Rue's visit follows the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines' visit to FIU, where she highlighted the existing talent and interest in bringing FIU students into the intelligence community.
The U.S. intelligence community (IC) is a group of separate government intelligence agencies and subordinate organizations that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities that support the foreign policy and national security of the United States. Member organizations include intelligence agencies, military intelligence and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments.
La Rue's visit included a fireside chat with FIU's Vice Provost for DEI El pagnier Kay "EK" Hudson; Carleen Vincent-Robinson, assistant dean at the Steven J. Green School of International Public Affairs and faculty fellow for social justice and inclusion and student access and success; and Brian Fonseca, director of the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, as the moderator.
