RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 North Carolina, First in Equity: Being Healthy Rather Than Seeming So
JF North Carolina Medical Journal
JO N C Med J
FD North Carolina Institute of Medicine
SP 5
OP 10
DO 10.18043/ncm.83.1.5
VO 83
IS 1
A1 McKoy, Henry C.
YR 2022
UL http://www.ncmedicaljournal.com/content/83/1/5.abstract
AB To achieve a healthier North Carolina, first we must increase the racial and gender diversity of the state’s scalable entrepreneurial pipeline, from both native and in-recruited firms, across all key industries. Then we must increase the scale and diversity of capital available to those racially and gender diverse entrepreneurs and businesses. Next, we must expand the place and space of the state’s racial and gender diverse entrepreneurs and businesses—in both the physical and virtual marketplaces—to ensure that they are all taking advantage of our economically expanding state. Finally, we must remove as many barriers—natural and artificial—to success as we can for racial and gender diverse businesses and entrepreneurs. These proactive efforts are not against anyone, but instead are for a healthy and whole state becoming what it should: to be, rather than to seem.