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Multicultural VMA to Launch, Seeks to Promote Diversity

Dr. Marie Sato Quicksall remembers when she was young, she and her brother would get excited if they saw an Asian person on TV, much less a mixed-race individual.

“We didn’t feel like we had a lot of representation, but we felt like we had a lot of support otherwise,” she said.

Today, she still feels that way as a veterinarian. When the conversation turns to diversity, she said, it tends to expand to all types, often to the exclusion of racial and ethnic diversity.

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