Pros
-Work/Life balance, good remote work culture
Cons
The culture at Mighty Citizen is racist. While the leadership publicly parade their so-called commitment to diversity, their actions tell the truth: after 25 years they have an executive level team that is all-white, making it abundantly clear that they have no real interest in change. Despite endless opportunities to diversify, they refuse, ensuring that leadership remains a space reserved for white people for as long as possible. A racial hierarchy that persists for decades is not an accident—it is the direct result of discrimination.
Mighty Citizen’s leadership loves to think of themselves as white saviors, patting themselves on the back for performative DEI initiatives while actively upholding the very racist culture they created and pretend to oppose. Their so-called commitment to diversity is nothing more than self-serving theater—a way to distract from their refusal to share power. When they say they value diversity, they mean only as long as it doesn’t require them to feel uncomfortable, give up power, or confront the fact that they have spent decades excluding people of color from leadership.
If Mighty Citizen treated people of color as equals, their leadership would reflect it. They have had 25 years—more than enough time—to build a leadership team that includes people of color, yet time and time again, they have deliberately chosen only white people for the highest levels of power.
Even more insidious is their complete lack of urgency in creating an equitable environment. By hiding behind the excuse that “change is slow,” they ensure they can have it both ways—basking in the glow of their own self-congratulatory white virtue while making absolutely no real effort to share power. Their refusal to act isn’t negligence; it’s a deliberate strategy to maintain power while pretending they care.
They have created so-called frameworks to ensure equal treatment, but these systems are doomed to fail because the real problem is them. No amount of structure or policy can fix the fact that the very people in charge refuse to acknowledge their own role in upholding a racist power structure. Until they do real self-reflection and take accountability for what they are doing wrong, these frameworks will remain useless—just another smokescreen to mask their unwillingness to change.
When confronted about their racist leadership structure, they deflect, minimize, and lie. They insist they don’t discriminate because they have promoted people of color, yet decades of exclusion from the highest level of leadership tell a different story. This also exposes a superficial understanding of racism—just promoting people of color doesn’t mean discrimination isn't present, especially when they are still excluded from the highest levels of leadership. They act as if avoiding racial slurs absolves them of racism, but the real racial violence is in their hiring and promotion practices. There is no shortage of highly qualified people of color who would excel in leadership roles, yet Mighty Citizen continues to block their access to power. They have the ability to take immediate, concrete steps to address this imbalance, but choose not to. Their insistence that diversity must unfold at a glacial pace isn’t a logistical challenge; it’s a conscious, calculated decision to uphold white dominance for as long as possible.
