Pugin, whom President Joe Biden appointed to SBA in August 2021, gave her remarks during a Construction Inclusion Week webinar hosted by the General Services Administration looking at different aspects of supplier diversity in the construction industry.
A series of webinars this week have looked at issues from getting executive buy in to creating an inclusive culture on projects for the second annual CIW, the industry’s effort to increase diversity within construction, while reducing bias-motivated events such as the placing of nooses and racist graffiti on jobsites.