“There’s a tension in corporate and government spaces,” said Laura Morgan Roberts of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, whose research focuses on identity in organizations. The racial justice protests this year had catalyzed changes like the Nasdaq proposal, but “to move the needle” on inequality there needed to be corporate and government leadership steeped in the issues, and candidates’ backgrounds do impact policy, she said. “We have to be intentional and proactive to eradicate patterns.”