Little diversity on Baker panel

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Governor Baker’s 59-member economic development council is more than 85 percent white and 80 percent male.

Little diversity on Baker panel
By Jim O’Sullivan Globe Staff
October 10, 2015

The economic development council appointed by Governor Charlie Baker is a little-known group that convened this week to create a blueprint for Massachusetts, a state with a growing population of Latinos and Asians and rising stars among minorities and women in the business world.

But Baker’s 59-member council is more than 85 percent white and more than 80 percent male, according to a Globe review. The lopsided demographics have prompted criticism from those who say that Baker’s personnel decisions have not lived up to his inclusive message on the campaign trail last year.

“Are you shocked?” said Horace Small, executive director of the Union of Minority Neighborhoods. “No one’s really calling this guy out for what he’s really about.”

Baker aides, in response, pointed to figures showing his administration as a whole is more diverse than that of his predecessor, Democrat Deval Patrick.