New American Media, Nov. 12, 2008 by Annette Fuentes
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=931bc18d8c825b753d6d59c5195d561d
“We thought it would be important regardless of which administration came in to have a talent book, in a sense, of people of color that could go into a new administration,” said Maria Blanco…. “Because of the nature of DC, it’s an insiders hiring world, which tends to exclude people of color because they aren’t in those circles.”