LEAD: Bridging the Divide - Uniting against Racism

I invite you to join us for the next LEAD webinar conversation, Friday June 24, 12-1pm. Please feel free to share with your networks.   

Registration required. Please register HERE.   

LEAD: Bridging the Divide - Uniting against Racism  

Featuring Howard Ross, author and social justice advocate

and Sonya Jacobs, U-M Chief Organizational Learning Officer
July 24, 2020

12pm - 1pm

LEAD, Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests who lead DEI initiatives. This LEAD conversation will address the need to have people of all social identities (across race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc.) involved in the fight against systemic racism. It’s human nature to be drawn to people who are similar to us and our desire to bond with our community intensifies under threat. How can we avoid an “us vs. them” mentality and mobilize as a unified force against racism? Featured guests Howard Ross and Sonya Jacobs will discuss pathways to bonding and bridging across difference.  

Howard Ross is no stranger to U-M, as many of our staff, students and faculty participated in the Cook Ross Unconscious Bias training. Howard is a lifelong social justice advocate and is considered one of the world’s seminal thought leaders on identifying and addressing unconscious bias and is the author of the Washington Post best seller, Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives. He will be discussing his latest book, Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart  which won the 2019 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Social Change and Social Justice. 

Sonya Jacobs is the University of Michigan’s first Chief Organizational Learning Officer and Senior Director of Faculty and Leadership Development for Michigan Medicine. She is responsible for creating curricula to build the capabilities of staff, faculty and leaders across the university. This includes the development of education and training programs to further the university’s initiatives around creating an inclusive and equitable environment.

Registration is required. Please register: HERE  

Have a safe, healthy and peaceful holiday weekend!

Deborah S. Willis, Ph.D.  

Program Lead Senior, DEI Certificate