Bozoma Saint John has left Uber, which she had joined just over a year ago as chief brand officer.
Why it matters: She was one of several of high-ranking women to join the ride-hailing company amid its string of workplace controversies, culminating in then-CEO Travis Kalanick's departure.
"As diversity progress in Silicon Valley stalls, advocates call for a new approach," the L.A. Times' Tracey Lien writes from San Francisco.
The big picture: "[W]hen companies pay money or lip service to diversity initiatives but don’t track whether those initiatives work, people start to feel like their time is being wasted ... Attrition of women remains high. And the number of black and Latino tech workers has by some counts actually declined."
