The Academic Life

How to Work Toward Diversity and Inclusion in Campus Organizations

Jan 28, 2021

50:33

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Is There a Difference in Identity?

01:39

Diversity Is Not About You Being This or That, I'm Not Races

01:59

What Does It Mean to Be White?

03:20

Introduction

2min

Intentional Communities - What Inspired You to Write a Book?

2min

Diversity Inclusion Is a Lifelong Work

2min

Diversity Is Not About You Being This or That, I'm Not Races

2min

What Does It Mean to Be White?

3min

People With Disabilities Aren't There to Show Up and Inspire People

2min

The Cumulative Effect of Micro Aggressions

3min

The Importance of Having an Outside Facilitator in Your Group

2min

The Importance of Giving Everyone Time and Space to Process

3min

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The Importance of Recognizing Immediate Bias

3min

11.

Engineers and Mental Health

2min

12.

How Do You Define Yourself as a Good Engineer?

2min

13.

Is There a Difference in Identity?

2min

14.

Code Switching and the Discrimination Effect

2min

15.

The Key to Diversity Is Not Ignoring Differences, but Celebrating Differences

3min

16.

Don't Avoid Conflict Just Because It's Hard

4min

17.

Is That Good or Bad?

2min

18.

Do You Know How to Be More Diverse?

3min

19.

Are You Getting More Jobs Than Black People?

4min

Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we’d bring in an expert about something? Email us at cgessler@gmail.com or dr.danamalone@gmail.com. Find us on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN.

In this episode you’ll hear about: the need for diversity and inclusion in campus organizations, what it means to do The Work, and a discussion of the book The Token.

Our guest is: Crystal Byrd Farmer, an engineer turned educator. She is the author of The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization.

Your host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women, gender, and sexuality. She reinterprets the historical narrative in both traditional and creative forms.

Listeners to this episode might be interested in:

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Tatum
College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Liberation by Eddie Cole.
Seeing White podcast series from Scene on Radio
AWARE-LA. White Anti-Racist Culture Building Toolkit
Dismantling Racism Workbook

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