Veronica Velazquez | Snr Manager, Inclusion & Diversity I was born outside of New York City and identify as a second generation Latina. My grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba and Puerto Rico.  I am now engaged to a first generation Latino, whose family is from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. I work in Inclusion & Diversity at […]

Tania Shershin | Vice President, Growth Marketing As many have pointed out, COVID-19 is accelerating existing trends – namely the digital transformation of businesses. Sadly, however, it’s also exacerbating things like racial and socioeconomic inequality and a decline in our mental health. Our new circumstances have created more urgency for businesses to respond with renewed focus on inclusion and diversity. As many businesses and […]

Shouvik Mukhopadhyay | Software Dev Engineer “The one argument for accessibility that doesn’t get made nearly often enough is how extraordinarily better it makes some people’s lives. How many opportunities do we have to dramatically improve people’s lives just by doing our job a little better?”  ― Steve Krug We seldom realize we have the […]

Marnie Weber | Sr. Technical Product Manager in Seattle Recently, one of my dear colleagues was discovered. I mean not in the movie star way, but at work. He had asked a hard question about accessibility of one of the company’s top executives during a town hall meeting and, after lots of emails and meetings […]

Isha Gulati, Implementation Executive with Egencia, first got involved in the Inclusion and Diversity (I&D) initiatives last year after being inspired by Expedia Group’s then Chief Inclusion Officer Melissa Maher’s Q&A session on International Women’s Day. Expedia Group’s Inclusion and Diversity team is guided by the Expedia Group purpose which is inherently inclusive: to bring […]

Earlier this month, we held two virtual tech panel events for our global audiences. The event focused on “Inclusion, Innovation and the Future of Travel” and we featured six of our Expedia Group leaders from Geneva, London, Gurgaon, Seattle and Chicago. They shared their insights on what it’s like to work at Expedia Group, what […]

Today we commemorate Juneteenth, the date that marks the end of slavery in the United States – two and a half full years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. On June 19th, 1865, Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.  Employee Voices “I look […]

Lauren von Stackelberg, Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity, Expedia Group On Tuesday 9 June, we offered all Expedia Group employees a day off to pause and to reflect in honor of the memory of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other innocent Black lives taken too soon because of racial injustice. Employees had the opportunity […]

The below note was sent from our CEO, Peter Kern to our global employees over the weekend with the intention of keeping it internal. Over the past 72 hours employees have expressed overwhelming feedback about the impact of this note on them and their desire to have an easy way to share it, so we […]

This past month, we celebrated Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM), recognizing the accomplishments of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. A rather broad term, Asian Pacific encompasses people with ancestry from the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. At Expedia Group, we want to bring the world […]