WEBINAR SERIES—Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI): Implicit Bias and Stereotype Threat

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This webinar will discuss how implicit bias—associating stereotypes without conscious knowledge—affects hiring, promotion, mentorship and productivity. The program will focus on ways to overcome implicit bias and stereotype threat in different areas of industry and academia. 

The aim of the program is to answer the following questions:

• What is implicit bias and stereotype threat?
• How does bias affect physiology and other STEM fields?
• Are we aware of our own biases and negative stereotypes?
• Is a culture of implicit bias in our institutions embedded in our policies and practices?
• What tools can we use to retrain our brains and our institutions to reduce or eliminate implicit bias?

Moderator

M. Lourdes Alarcon Fortepiani, MD, PhD, is a professor at the Rosenberg School of Optometry at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. She received her MD and PhD in physiology at the University of Murcia in Spain and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Fortepiani is passionate about inclusive science education, diversity and equity, participating in the development of guidelines and enrichment sessions at her institution. She has served on the APS Women in Physiology Committee and is currently serving on the APS Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee.
 

Speaker

Crystal L. Hoyt, PhD, is a professor and associate dean for Academic Affairs and the Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond in Virginia. Her scholarship resides at the intersection of human belief systems (e.g., mindsets, stereotypes and political ideologies) and social justice and well-being. Hoyt is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Hoyt’s writing has been featured in news outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, the Today Show and NPR’s “Tell Me More,” among others.