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Headline: Coast Guard academy is working hard to diversify

Headline: Coast Guard academy is working hard to diversify

Coast Guard academy is working hard to diversify

Via The Baltimore Sun

Written by Rear Adm. James E. Rendón

Chris Soto’s recent op-ed regarding the racial diversity of Coast Guard Academy cadets highlights an important issue for the academy and the Coast Guard (“U.S. Coast Guard Academy blindingly white,” June 10). The very fact that I am the superintendent — a first generation college graduate and a Hispanic-American, the first, I believe, to lead any of the nation’s service academies, or that my predecessor was the first woman to lead any service academy — is a visible example of progress made..

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