Last week conservative watchdog Accuracy in Media (AIM) shared video of a City of Raleigh employee named Briana Scurry talking about Raleigh’s efforts to continue DEI initiatives. In the video Scurry can be heard sharing how the City of Raleigh is able to still push a DEI agenda, by partnering with organizations that share their goals of pushing DEI.

Scurry told the undercover reporter, “We are certainly being strategic in the ways that we—we don’t want to draw attention to ourselves, number 1. Right?”

Later when confronted by another member of the AIM team about her earlier statements, Scurry refused comment before closing her office door.

Prior to working for the City of Raleigh, Scurry worked at UNC Chapel Hill’s Computer Science department as the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Coordinator. 

This isn’t Accuracy in Media’s first foray into exposing attempts at hiding DEI in North Carolina this year. In May AIM published videos of a UNC Charlotte administrator pushing DEI despite it being banned. The administrator, Janique Saunders, was let go shortly after.

Currently there are three bills vetoed by Gov. Josh Stein that would eliminate DEI from different areas of North Carolina’s government. All three bills are awaiting a vote on a potential override in the House. 
Those bills are House Bill 171 Equality in State Agencies/Prohibition on DEI, Senate Bill 227 Eliminating “DEI” in Public Education, and Senate Bill 558 Eliminating “DEI” in Public Higher Ed.