Wednesday, January 27, 2021 2020-21 Beverly Cobble Rodriguez Lectureship Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt, shares her insights into building diverse teams and encouraging leadership skills among them. Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt, Head of Global Diversity and Belonging at Airbnb, is an expert on building inclusive, global teams. She has served as Vanderbilt University's Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and as the Global Chief Diversity Officer at UVA’s Darden School of Business. For 25 years, she has taught MBAs and executives leadership, team dynamics, and negotiations and conducted research on the factors that unleash, leverage and amplify the contributions made by individuals, particularly women, underrepresented individuals and numerical minorities. The Darden School of Business, McIntire School of Commerce, and Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion co-sponsored this event with the UVA Women’s Center