Grange Insurance’s Hammonds Adds Community Relations to AVP Role

Grange Insurance in Columbus, Ohio, has named Priscilla Hammonds as assistant vice president, Diversity & Inclusion and Community Relations.

Hammonds has served as assistant vice president, Diversity & Inclusion since joining Grange in 2015. She adds the community relations role as Patricia Eshman retires after more than a decade leading Grange’s community relations team.

As AVP of Diversity & Inclusion, Hammonds has successfully led the development and execution of an enterprise diversity and inclusion strategy to drive initiatives that impact the workforce, workplace, marketplace and community.

Before joining Grange, Hammonds served as a senior diversity consultant at Nationwide Insurance, where she developed and executed on diversity and inclusion strategies in support of key company initiatives. Prior to Nationwide, she served in several leadership roles at State Farm Insurance, including director of Diversity and corporate diversity consultant.

Active in the community, Hammonds currently serves as an ambassador for the United Way of Central Ohio Project Diversity and president and founding member of the Central Ohio Diversity Consortium. She served as a board member for the United Negro College Fund and National African American Insurance Association, as a member of the community committee for Maryhaven and as a fellow of the African American Leadership Academy.

Through its network of independent agents, Grange offers auto, home, life and business insurance protection. The company and its affiliates serve policyholders in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Source: Grange Insurance

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