Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Thurgood Marshall College Fund

Denise Young Smith, Apple’s first VP of inclusion and diversity, will leave Apple at the end of the year, according to TechCrunch. The announcement comes less than a year after Smith took the position, which happened back in May. Smith ran Apple’s human resources division before that and has been with the company for 20 years, making this a surprising departure.

News of the departure comes just a month after Apple’s inaugural diversity chief made some surprising and controversial comments on diversity while speaking at a conference. “There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men in a room, and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” she said, according to Quartz.

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