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 […]

Ben Delk | Inclusion & Diversity, Expedia Group If you look around—at least in digital and commercial spaces—you’ll notice that we are in the middle of what is generally recognized as Pride month. The concept of Pride and its celebration is—and should be—honored year-round but during the month of June, many companies emblazon their corporate logos with rainbow patterns, […]

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 […]

We asked two of our engineering leaders from Vrbo about their passions and how they got to where they are today. They will be speaking at Power to Fly’s Diversity Reboot Summit this week. Please tell us more about yourself. Francesca Hernandez | Senior Engineering Manager: I currently lead the marketing data engineering teams in […]

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 […]

In a short amount of time at Expedia Group, Vidhi has already accomplished a lot. Having joined almost three years ago, among her achievements include a speaking engagement at the world’s largest women in tech conference, Grace Hopper Conference India. She’s also a huge proponent of working collaboratively to solve hard problems. Read more about […]

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 […]