Former Sacramento State DEI Officer Sues President Luke Wood and CSU Over Gender, Race Discrimination

A year after her resignation from the post of chief diversity officer at Sacramento State in May 2024, Mia Settles-Tidwell filed a lawsuit against President Luke Wood and the California State University’s board of trustees over discrimination based on age, gender and race that she said she faced at the workplace. In the complaint filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the Black woman leader said she was humiliated in front of her colleagues, offered a lower pay raise than her peers, excluded from teams and documents she should have had access to, and slowly stripped of her full responsibilities. When Settles-Tidwell raised concerns, the situation worsened, her lawsuit states.

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