Facebook Taps Matthew Shepard Foundation’s Cynthia Deitle for Senior Civil Rights Role

She spent 22 years as a special agent with the FBI

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Cynthia Deitle joined Facebook as director and associate counsel, civil rights.

Her hire follows the social network’s addition of Roy L. Austin Jr. in January as its first-ever vice president of civil rights.

Deitle had been director of civil rights reform at the Matthew Shepard Foundation since 2017, where she managed the organization’s program addressing hate crimes.

She retired as a special agent with the FBI in 2017, prior to joining the Matthew Shepard Foundation, after spending 22 years specializing in its civil rights program.

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