Last summer, in the wake of the death of George Floyd in the US during his arrest by police and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Buki Hough a marine personnel manager at Seaspan, became engaged in more conversations about diversity, then started a new group called Melanated Mariners.
“I just felt like something really switched in me,” she told Tradewinds News.
“We keep talking about the under-representation of women and indigenous people, but nobody is addressing the elephant in the room in North America — that black people are not very well represented in the marine industry.”
Read the full story about Hough over at Tradewinds and go follow Melanated Mariners on Instagram.
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