In a press release earlier today, the University of Iowa named Broderick Binns the Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for UI Athletics. It makes permanent the interim role he had when the position was created in August 2019.
Within the Hawkeye athletic department, few are as qualified as Binns. After rejoining the football team as a graduate assistant in 2014, he was named director of player development in April 2016. In a Hawk Central profile last summer, his role was described as “honorary older sibling” for new Hawkeyes. In it, he described his prior role as “what he was born to do.