{"id":321,"date":"2013-04-30T22:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T02:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2013-04-30T22:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T02:20:50","slug":"mayor-berke-takes-diversity-to-next-level-by-hiring-shanice-tallchief-goldstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2013\/04\/30\/mayor-berke-takes-diversity-to-next-level-by-hiring-shanice-tallchief-goldstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Berke takes diversity to next level by hiring Shanice Tallchief-Goldstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/diversity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-320\" alt=\"Diversity hands (Used under the CC-BY-2.0 license. Source: http:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/av1aCV)\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/diversity-300x286.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/diversity-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/diversity.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diversity hands (Used under the CC-BY-2.0 license. Source: http:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/av1aCV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>As Mayor Andy Berke continues to fill vacant positions in his administration, so far City Council members and constituents have praised the choices for their quality, expertise and diversity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Leaving a crowd of reporters and Chattanooga residents in slack-jawed amazement, at a press conference yesterday afternoon Berke announced the appointment of Shanice Tallchief-Goldstein, which took his diversity game to a whole &#8216;nother level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;BOOM!&#8221; said Mayor Berke while throwing a fistful of glitter into the air, after introducing the new director of Diversity and Inclusion, who entered the stage in a wheelchair. &#8220;Did I just DIVERSI-BLAST you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Ms. Shanice Tallchief-Goldstein will make a great team member, drawing from her experience as a wounded Iraq War veteran, principal chief of the Osage Tribe, director of the Anti-Defamation League, chairman of the NAACP, Japanese kabuki actress and winner of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, which are just a few items from her impressive r\u00e9sum\u00e9,&#8221; said Berke.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This one person represents 72 different minorities. Seriously, she is like freakin&#8217; Cirque du Soleil and every single ad for the United Colors of Benetton wrapped up into one,&#8221; continued Berke.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Council members commended Berke&#8217;s appointment, including District 6 councilwoman Carol Berz, who said, &#8220;Berke just threw down, hardcore. This is some next level shit. It&#8217;s like he got his administration re-upholstered.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Mayor Andy Berke continues to fill vacant positions in his administration, so far City Council members and constituents have praised the choices for their quality, expertise and diversity. Leaving a crowd of reporters and Chattanooga residents in slack-jawed amazement, at a press conference yesterday afternoon Berke announced the appointment of Shanice Tallchief-Goldstein, which took his diversity game to a whole &#8216;nother level. &#8220;BOOM!&#8221; said Mayor Berke while throwing a fistful of glitter into the air, after introducing the new director of Diversity and Inclusion, who entered the stage in a wheelchair. &#8220;Did I just DIVERSI-BLAST you?&#8221; &#8220;Ms. Shanice Tallchief-Goldstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}