Chevy Cleaves
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Chevy Cleaves’ biggest recent achievement was being selected by CIO Views Magazine as the 2023 Most Prominent Leader in Diversity and Inclusion. This was in broad recognition for the success he and his team created in advancing D&I in MIT Lincoln Laboratory and in modeling it across the national security industry.
“Chevy Cleaves has been, and continues to be, an outstanding visionary and partner,” said Dr. Eric Evans, director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory. “He architected our strategy and has been exceptional in guiding our plan and its implementation. Diversity and inclusion are critical to our national security mission, and Chevy’s leadership has been essential to our success.”
Why Watch
In 2024, Cleaves and his team are heavily focused on continuing to leverage every opportunity to more deeply connect the work to the organization’s goals, objectives and outcomes. This is essential to partner with business unit and laboratory leaders attempting to effectively reconcile the recent Supreme Court decision, and its aftermath, with their very real responsibilities to access and maximize all talent pools as critical differentiators to MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s technology and national security mission.
“Innovation thrives at the nexus of inclusion and diversity,” Cleaves said. “At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, we are committed to leveraging talent from all across our nation to help us identify and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems.”