Diversity, equity, and inclusion
In companies and groups, it's important for everyone to be treated fairly and to be part of the team. This is called DEI, which means including many different kinds of people, making sure everyone has the same chances, and helping everyone feel welcome. DEI helps make sure that people who have not always been treated well because of who they are get to join in and have a say in decisions.
Sometimes people talk about DEI with different words, like EDI or DEIB, but they all mean making sure different people are included and treated right. This includes things like paying people fairly and making sure they all have what they need to succeed.
Places like schools and hospitals also use DEI to help everyone there feel like they belong and can share their ideas. Training people in DEI can help them understand why it's important for everyone to have the same chances.
Laura San Giacomo is an American actress who was born on November 14, 1961 or 1962. She has been in many movies and TV shows. In the movie "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," she played a character named Cynthia and won an award. She was also in "Pretty Woman," "Quigley Down Under," "The Stand," and the TV show "Just Shoot Me!" She has been nominated for some big awards and has also been in the TV show "Saving Grace" and "NCIS."
Laura was born in New Jersey to MaryJo and John San Giacomo. Her dad owned a paper mill. She liked acting since she was in high school. After high school, she went to the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and got a degree in acting in 1984.
After school, she moved to New York and was in lots of plays. She did well and people liked her acting. Her first time on TV was on three different TV shows in 1987. She had another important part on a show called "Crime Story" in 1988.
In 2009, people used the word "racebending" to talk about a problem in movies. This word started to be used when a TV show called "Avatar: The Last Airbender" was made into a movie. In the TV show, the main characters Aang, Katara, and Sokka are from East Asian and Inuit backgrounds. But in the movie, the actors who played these characters were not from those backgrounds.
People did not like this and tried to tell the movie makers that they were unhappy. They sent many letters, but the movie did not change the actors. Then, the people who were unhappy made a group and a website called "Racebending." The group says that "racebending" is when the person who makes a movie changes the race of a character. This has happened many times in movies and is not fair to people of different races.
One person, Christina Shu Jien Chong, says that in the United States, many movies do not show enough people of different races. This is not because there are not enough actors from these groups, but because the movie industry often gives jobs to people they know instead of looking for new people from different races.