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Meet the Acting Chief

By Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity

Howard Caro-López is the Acting EEO Director, Office of Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity (DEO). He is responsible for advising the USGS Executive Leadership Team (ELT) on all aspects of equal employment opportunity (EEO), diversity management, civil rights, and related employment issues that affect the bureau’s diverse workforce.

Howard's key responsibilities include but are not limited to matters related to the following:

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  • Affirmative Employment Program (AEP)
  • Disability Program (including Reasonable Accommodations)  
  • Special Emphasis Programs  
  • Diversity and Inclusion Programs  
  • Diversity Outreach and Recruitment  
  • EEO Complaints Management  
  • EEO and Diversity and Inclusion Training  

As the bureau’s Acting EEO Director, Howard directs programs, sets policies, and establishes procedures and practices in accordance with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) rules and regulations and applicable laws and Executive Orders that have been put in place to prevent individual and (or) systematic discrimination. As part of this work, he develops proactive initiatives across the bureau.

Prior to this detail, Howard served as the Proactive Prevention of Discrimination Division Team Lead and Departmental Management Directive (MD)-715 Program Manager for the DOI Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Civil Rights (ODICR), where he oversees Model EEO Program Compliance, and provides consultation and guidance to all bureau Equal Employment Opportunity Program staff. He also served as acting director for the Proactive Prevention Division in 2023, supervising a team of four employees.

Prior to joining DOI, Howard was a Civil Rights Analyst with the Department of Transportation’s Departmental Office of Civil Rights, where he was the resident social scientist and civil rights subject-matter expert on both affirmative equal employment opportunity and public civil rights compliance, as well as the Department’s Hispanic Employment Program Manager. Howard also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University; the Director of Quantitative Research for the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies at the City University of New York; and a Civil Rights Analyst for the U.S. Department of Justice's Voting Rights Section.