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Beverly DIB director reviews equity audit progress, outlines language access and digital equity steps
Summary
Wangari Fahari, Beverly’s director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, briefed the City Council on progress implementing a racial equity audit and outlined priorities including language access, digital equity, cultural recognition and a six‑phase implementation framework.
Wangari Fahari, the City of Beverly’s director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, told the City Council on June 2 that the city has begun implementing recommendations from a prior racial equity audit and has focused work on language access, digital equity and cultural recognition.
Fahari said the city’s DIB work “spans nearly a decade” and called implementation “a call to action,” adding that equity “is not a moment. It's a sustained movement woven into culture, systems, and priorities of our city.”
The presentation traced local steps beginning with a city ordinance establishing a human rights committee and continuing through…
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