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How one group is building a focus on DEI into everything it does

Association began overhaul of its governance through an inclusion lens in 2018Young WoodruffThe murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020 was a wake-up call for many associations. But the American Art Therapy Association's reckoning with diversity, equity and inclusion came several years before.On former President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day in 2017, then-Second Lady Karen Pence announced that she would shine a "spotlight on the mental health profession of art therapy," according to a New York Times report. AATA's leaders met with Pence and spoke at the press conference where she launched her art therapy initiative. But the association's… Read More