Opera San José General Director Shawna Lucey has welcomed Nilab Hessabi onto the Board of Trustees.
Hessabi is head of data science, research and insights, human evaluation at Apple’s Cupertino HQ.
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Norman: any special reason why you chose to post this? No disrespect to her but corporate people join boards every day of the week, all over the USA.
maybe because she checks all the woke boxes and not your typical opera-loving demographic: female, middle-eastern, young, and not gay.
Tricky Sam asked, “any special reason why you chose to post this?”
iCandy?
Perhaps Slipped Disc wants to show that young computer geek entrepreneurs also appreciate the arts, not just elegant aristocrats who inherited their wealth.
Yes but 90% of arts donors are the old money ‘elegant aristocrats’ not the young nouveau-riche.
All the more why it’s great that someone like her wants to join the board.
Of course THAT comment wouldn’t be considered racist or classist, would it?