@evan @howsen
This is an interesting initiative, I got here through reading about monetization of fedi.

Why 50%? Why misrepresent your potential audience in the board? Unless your target audience is not the whole but the minorities, in which case again I'd say 50% sounds arbitrary and minorities would complain that other minorities or over-represented eventually.

How about making sure you have at least ONE of each minority you are targeting and apply decision making rules to allow veto? This would require a more numerous board, as well.