The museum’s staff is nowhere near representative of a city that is 82 percent Black. Of the staff of 371, 38 percent are Black, three of its 11 curators are Black, and of Salort-Pons’ nine-person senior leadership team, only one member is Black. An employee survey for workplace satisfaction asking whether employees agreed or strongly agreed with the statement “The DIA provides a culture in which I can thrive” fell from 72% in 2016 to 53% in 2017. A group of undisclosed former and current staffers that calls itself “DIA Staff Action” issued a letter in July 2020 describing a “hostile” work environment and an administration dismissive of women and people of cover, many of whom have resigned during the period of Salort-Pons’ directorship. On July 2020, their first demand was publicized: that Salort-Pons be “removed from his role” by August 31.