BIAS, personal - institutional – systemic. The impact of bias on services, opportunities, and achievement. Bias is the tendency to overestimate or underestimate the abilities of people. Our positive and negative biases influence how we interact with others. In light of on-going protests for equity, this program will focus on defining bias-implicit or unconscious. Carole Copeland Thompson, Founder of the Multicultural Symposium Series, will be the moderator.
Presenters: Cristina Mello Ajemian, President AAUW Taunton Area Branch and Member Borderland Suffrage Planning Committee; Keith Connors, MA Department of Higher Education, Program Manager, STEM Pipeline Fund and Program Director, Academic Affairs & Student Success; Dr. Sabrina Gentlewarrior, Vice President, Division of Student Success and Diversity, Bridgewater State University and Member Leading for Change Higher Education Diversity Consortium; Lynn Howard, President Delta Kappa Gamma (DKG) Massachusetts, STEM Chair AAUW South Shore Branch, Member SE MA STEM Network Advisory Board, and Fourth Grade Teacher Weymouth Public Schools; Pat Monteith, Coordinator Brockton Public Library Suffrage Centennial Project, Member SE MA STEM Network Advisory Board, Co-Chair NAACP’s ACT-SO Program, and NASA Solar System Ambassador; Dr. Aminah Pilgrim, Senior Lecturer II in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & Critical Ethnic and Community Studies, College of Liberal Arts, UMass Boston, Trustee Brockton Public Library (BPL) and Member BPL Suffrage Centennial Committee; Melody Rivas, Brockton High School Student, and Willie Wilson, Jr., Co-Founder & Co-Chair, Racial Reconciliation Task Force Brockton Assembly of God, History Scholar Brockton Public Library Suffrage Centennial Project, English Language Instructor Upward Bound, and Adjunct History Professor Stonehill College.
September 10, 2020
