Demetria Johnson - Nominee for Career Catalyst Award - 2023 Campus Recruiting Choice Awards

Demetria is the D&I Early in Career Partner, Americas, Genentech. Demetria is responsible for designing a strategy for impactful early career opportunities to create sustainable career pathways for historically underrepresented and excluded communities in science, non-science, and medicine to support the vision, purpose, and values aligned with Genentech's and Roche's D&I vision. Prior to her role at Genentech, Demetria supported the execution of Gilead's talent acquisition strategy to evolve an I&D strategic framework in pursuit of the company's I&D goals. Demetria is a well-respected SME in the DE&I community. She parlays her passion for recruitment and inclusion by serving as a frequent speaker at conferences on talent management, inclusive leadership, and innovative methods to proactively build and develop sustainable talent pipelines for underrepresented minorities.

Career Highlight

"In February 2023, I was able to incorporate two different technology platforms to elevate the EVP for one of our business functions. This process helps to improve our marketing efforts and outreach to thousands of students across the country currently enrolled at HBCUs and HSIs, as well as prospects who expressed interest in any of the events we hosted in 2022 and 2023. As a result of utilizing this technology, I brought in 300 students from over 100+ HBCUs and HSIs, which resulted in 25 roles being filled by underrepresented candidates by previously untapped talent."