Since then, Bond spoke to High Snobiety about her experience of what it’s like to be a Black woman at the company.
“It’s a very peculiar experience to be Black and work at adidas,” said Bond.
Just last year The New York Times reported that only 4.5% of adidas employees identified as Black– which is a minimal number when you realize how influential Black culture is on athletic brands.
Bond recounts issues and tone-deaf moments she encounters at work like the time she received a creative brief from a Vice President that that had an image of a white man on a skateboard wearing the confederate flag.
“Looking at that image on that day was really painful because it let me know — as the only Black employee on the team — that nobody caught it and nobody spoke up and said it was wrong,” Bond says.
