Client Portal Make A Payment REQUEST PROPOSAL Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Home » About Brown Edwards » Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Brown Edwards' DEI Initiative Brown Edwards strives to create a work environment where diversity is welcome and to find ways to attract, develop, and retain exceptional individuals representing the diverse communities where we work and live. Our firm believes we are strongest when we genuinely listen to, and act upon, thoughts and opinions from individuals from all walks of life with different life experiences. Brown Edwards believes this openness leads to a stronger, more vibrant, workplace that will lead to even greater success for the firm and for our associates. Our firm is taking steps to increase workforce diversity in a number of ways, including recruiting at historically black colleges and universities and on other major university campuses. We also sponsor student visas to allow foreign students the opportunity to work in the public accounting profession in the United States. In addition, Brown Edwards has formed an internal task force to evaluate and ensure that our firm does all we can to facilitate a diverse work environment. Our Goal Our goal is to create an environment where employees from all backgrounds have equal career development and advancement opportunities. We believe that focusing on DEI will create positive work environments, will create a more diverse and inclusive workforce at BE where we can build stronger internal and external relationships and help us grow and evolve into an even more desirable firm to work at and to partner with. How We Will Accomplish Our Goal Training Recruitment Inform & Measure ❝Recent events have brought more focus on the need to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion and it needs to be a focus within public accounting. I’m very pleased that our leadership is strongly supporting this initiative. Ensuring that our company is a place where every team member feels they can bring their true selves to work and where their ideas and individuality are celebrated and supported is extremely important.❞ Leslie Roberts DEI Task Force Leader Fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Brown Edwards COVID-19 and recent worldwide events have spotlighted the need to address societal inequities and to embrace, seek and celebrate diversity as well as support equity and inclusion within the workplace and society in general. READ MORE Meet Our Task Force Members Leslie F. Roberts DEI Taskforce Leader Alexa Keeler DEI Taskforce Member Dorcas Parks DEI Taskforce Member Joshua Graves DEI Taskforce Member Laura Sprouse DEI Taskforce Member Lisa Gibson DEI Taskforce Member Michael E. Fleenor DEI Taskforce Member Mikaela Cook DEI Taskforce Member Payal Patel DEI Taskforce Member Travis Gilmer DEI Taskforce Member From traditional assurance and tax services to the latest in professional business advisory and consulting services, Brown Edwards provides you with the peace of mind you deserve. CONTACT US Quick Links ABOUT US Client Satisfaction OUR SERVICES Assurance and Accounting Advisory and Consulting Tax CAREERS Open Positions Internships Office Locations Bluefield, West Virginia Bristol, Virginia Charleston, West Virginia Harrisonburg, Virginia Kingsport, Tennessee Lynchburg , Virginia New River Valley, Virginia Newport News, Virginia Petersburg, Virginia Richmond, Virginia Roanoke, Virginia Wytheville, Virginia © 2021 Brown Edwards & Company, L.L.P. Certified Public Accountants Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Client Portal