I'm sorry you feel that I'm dodging your question. You ask, Did you prioritize a casual line about vote tallying, which was probably written without any intended meaning, over the supposed values of diversity that were written with care on the OTW website? -- my answer to that question is "no, I didn't, and neither did the board." But the way you're framing the question feels quite loaded to me, and I don't think it's a fair description of what went on.

I'm not comfortable sharing what I said in our closed sessions because my comments were part of a broader conversation, a conversation which was presumed by all parties to be confidential. These weren't 'secret meetings' -- they were conversations between the board and a variety of org staffers who held a variety of passionate (and contradictory) opinions on how we should handle this situation once we realized that it was going to be contentious and that feelings were going to be hurt no matter which decision we made.

I stand behind the board's decision, and I ask you -- and everyone reading this -- to believe that we were doing our best to honor a variety of different needs in a difficult situation and that we take the org's commitment to diversity seriously.