Story by Sgt. 1st Class Joel Salgado | Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute | 03.20.2025
The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute is conducting a pause and review of its curricula to ensure that the curricula taught to Military Equal Opportunity and Equal Employment Opportunity professionals are in line with recent executive orders, law and DoD guidance. The pause and review began March 19, 2025, and will ensure that DEOMI graduates the most highly qualified and......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Lance Pounds | Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute | 05.22.2024
The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) hosted its first in-person Board of Advisor (BOA) meeting since before the COVID-19 pandemic, on May 2, 2024. Deputy Director of the Defense Human Resources Activity (DHRA) Mr. Michael Sorrento, Director of the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) Dr. Lisa Arfaa, and DEOMI Commandant U.S. Air Force Col. Michelle Nash, led......
Story by Corinna Baltos | U.S. Army Sustainment Command | 05.09.2024
Imagine you wake up tomorrow and find out that you are no longer a citizen of the country you were born, and your family had lived in for generations. That was the reality Ralph Troll’s mother faced on Sept. 15, 1935....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Lance Pounds | Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute | 04.11.2023
PATRICK SPACE FORCE BASE, Fla.— In observance of Days of Remembrance, the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) proudly announces the availability of original artwork available for download from DEOMI’s public website, www.defenseculture.mil....
Story by Staff Sgt. Raul Pacheco | Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute | 01.26.2023
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Tony Cohen, human resources noncommissioned officer in charge of Personnel & Student Services at the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, promoted to the rank of Master Sgt. during a ceremony held January 17, 2023....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Lance Pounds | Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute | 01.27.2022
PATRICK SPACE FORCE BASE, Fla. – Archie Delapaz and Randall Allen, videographers with the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) Multimedia & Technology Development Department, not only provide premier DEOMI products, but they also hone their technical and artistic skills by creating original short films for submission in the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival (MIFF),......
Story by Staff Sgt. Raul Pacheco | Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute | 12.08.2021
By Staff Sgt. Raul Pacheco, Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute PATRICK SPACE FORCE BASE, Fla. – Two hundred U.S. military and civilian Department of Defense (DoD) leaders participated in the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute’s (DEOMI) Leadership Team Awareness Seminar (LTAS) virtually, Dec. 8....
Story by Glenn Sircy | Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute | 11.17.2021
By Glenn Sircy, Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute PATRICK SPACE FORCE BASE, Fla. – Clarence A. Johnson, director, Diversity Management Operations Center, and chair, Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) Board of Advisors (BOA), along with Navy Capt. Delmy M. Robinson, commandant of DEOMI, hosted the final DEOMI BOA meeting of 2021 virtually, Nov. 17....
