WRITTEN COMMENTS
Internal Culture MFA’s Staff and Leadership reflect the demographic of the people it serves. • Personnel might be more diversified than the demographic of people served. MFA may need to diversify some of its programming and/or consider stretching its marketing efforts to diverse communities. • It is hard to answer this accurately. I don't really know the demographics of our visitors. They seem to skew mainly older and white, though there have been more younger people of late. However, we actually serve the people of St. Petersburg, a city which is much more diverse than our visitors (I think). • I think the staff statistically are similar to the demographics of our local community. I do not think leadership as diversely reflects the people we serve. • It appears that the staff is diverse. • Generally speaking, no. It is improving, however. • St. Petersburg and Pinellas county are very diverse, not only in terms of race, but also with regard to socio-economic status, education, family structures, etc. I would say the majority of MFA staff are white, wealthy or middle class, highly educated, and have somewhat "normalized" family structures. This is not a criticism, just my observation. We reflect elements of the demographics we serve, but certainly not all of them. • The MFA staff and leadership reflects our constituency but not necessarily the greater St Pete community in which it exists. • I think that MFA staff currently reflects the demographic of the MFA community, but the hope is that both will diversify in the future. • Demographics for Pinellas County are 74% white, 10% Black or African American, and 8% Hispanic. Of our 27 FTEs there are 5 full time Black employees, including staff in senior and management level positions that are public facing, and 2 that identify as Hispanic...so we are actually more diverse than our county demographics. • We remain a predominantly white institution although we have gotten better, and I know we work hard at that. • We want to be open to everyone, of all age groups, ethnicities, and backgrounds. However, as a staff I would say that we are mostly white women (young to middle aged) with at least 4 years of college education (if not more). Our board may be
the least diverse but, I am generally unfamiliar with who currently serves in these roles . •W e are an overwhelmingly white, wealthy, and aged organization, but are tasked with appealing to diverse groups of people. We achieve this through our curatorial choices, but we are still left without representation for most of the exhibitions we mount by people of color. • I think statistically we represent the demographics of St. Pete fairly well, but I believe there is more work to be done, particularly at the board level. • Only 2 Latinos, 0 Native Americans, 0 Asians/Pacific Islanders
MFA’s employees represent a diverse workforce at all levels. • MFA is working on diversifying its workforce. • Again, it's getting better but not there yet.
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