Microsoft charges Māori and Native American executives to increase indigenous employment

Microsoft charges Māori and Native American executives to increase indigenous employment

Microsoft’s only Māori executive has been tasked with bringing more indigenous people into the global giant. Working with a Native American counterpart, Willow Young, Dan Walker (Ngāti Ruanui, Tuhourangi, Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Kahungunu) will head a new working group, ‘Indigenous at Microsoft’. “We’re on a bit of a journey at Microsoft,” Walker says. “It’s…