--- title: Tyra Banks Says Diversity Should Be Priority Time 100 Summit description: Tyra Banks discussed why she's made it a point to hire women of color as a female entrepreneur at the 2019 Time 100 Summit. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time-100-summit-2019/5574149/tyra-banks-women-of-color-gayle-king-time-100/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-23T17:56:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-21T07:21:55.184Z og:title: Tyra Banks On Why It's Important for Her to Hire Women of Color as an Entrepreneur og:description: Tyra Banks discussed why she's made it a point to hire women of color as a female entrepreneur at the 2019 Time 100 Summit. og:url: https://time.com/collections/time-100-summit-2019/5574149/tyra-banks-women-of-color-gayle-king-time-100/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt283d5385548c2626/698948ce096a9422886a4f6f/n4a7852.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tyra Banks On Why It's Important for Her to Hire Women of Color as an Entrepreneur og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tyra Banks On Why It's Important for Her to Hire Women of Color as an Entrepreneur twitter:description: Tyra Banks discussed why she's made it a point to hire women of color as a female entrepreneur at the 2019 Time 100 Summit. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt283d5385548c2626/698948ce096a9422886a4f6f/n4a7852.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 23, 2019 # Tyra Banks On Why It's Important for Her to Hire Women of Color as an Entrepreneur > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/) ## Cady Lang  (L-R) Whitney Wolfe Herd and Tyra Banks participate in a panel on Empowering Women in Business at the TIME100 Summit in New York, on April 23, 2019. (L-R) Whitney Wolfe Herd and Tyra Banks participate in a panel on Empowering Women in Business at the TIME100 Summit in New York, on April 23, 2019.Krisanne Johnson for TIME As a supermodel, media mogul and entrepreneur, [Tyra Banks](http://time.com/4380300/tyra-banks-supermodel-kendall-jenner-gigi-hadid/) has a powerful platform that spans industries and demographics, something she’s well aware of and proactively using to advocate for women and particularly women of color in the workplace. Speaking on a panel about female entrepreneurship at the [TIME 100 Summit](http://time.com/5573280/hillary-clinton-time-100-summit/), emphasized that diversity in the workplace needs to be a priority and that the urgency for change comes from the top down. “Not only is it important for me to hire women, but my team understands it’s important to hire women of color,” said Banks who will debut her latest venture, [a model-themed amusement park called “Modelland”](http://time.com/5521802/tyra-banks-amusement-park-modelland/) this fall. She noted that she can tell how her business is affected by the “lens that it’s coming from.” During a panel about female entrepreneurship where she appeared in conversation with [Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee](http://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567702/aileen-lee/), [Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd](http://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217594/whitney-wolfe-herd/), and moderator, the [journalist Gayle King](http://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567840/gayle-king/), Banks shared how the challenges and discrimination she faced as a black woman early-on in her modeling career impact the way she thinks about diversity in her business ventures now, from the employees she hires to the talent she recruits for her production company, Bankable Productions. “I think it’s about mandates,” she said. “I think if you have power, that is a platform that just wields so much control — ‘this is this role, it’s a CFO, we will find have a woman, we will find a woman of color, we will’ — and being very specific. 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