Test yourselF

• Implicit Association Test.  Take this free test from Harvard University and learn more about your personal levels of unconscious bias.
• Intercultural Development Inventory.  Individual test that generates an analysis of your own level of personal intercultural awareness and education and makes recommendations for improvements.  ***This test is not free and requires contracting with a Qualified Administrator.  Email Kathleen LaTosch to schedule your assessment.
• Is Yours a Learning Organization?  This free real-time test helps you assess the level of support for creativity, innovation and inclusion you experience at your organization.

“How-To” Guides and examples for Expanding Diversity & Inclusion

• Strategies for Talent Diversity.  American Express NGen Fellows Project 2013-2014 – Independent Sector.
• Building Inclusive Nonprofit Organizations.  The Denver Foundation.
• Implicit Bias Review 2013.  The Kirwan Institute.
• Unconscious Bias, annotated bibliography of 30 years of research.  re:gender: http://regender.org/LiteratureReviews/UnconsciousBias
• Step-By-Step: A Guide to Achieving Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace.  Third Sector New England (TSNE).
• Race Matters Toolkit.  Annie E. Casey Foundation.
• Learning Together: The Peer Action Learning Network for Diversity & Inclusion.  Council of Michigan Foundations.
• National Center for Cultural Competence.  Georgetown University.
• Make Sure You’re Prepared for the D&I Journey.  Diversity Executive.
• Creating Inclusive Communities.  City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Diverse Perspectives & Voices

• Meet Alex [a Miami-based free-lance writer… who also “happens to have Cerebral Palsy.”]  From Cerebral Palsy Guidance (2016)
• How it feels to be a Spanish-speaking in an English-speaking classroom.  From Media Matters (2015)
• MUW student works for LGBT acceptance, understanding.  William Brownin
• g, The Dispatch (Nov. 19, 2014)
• ‘Orange is the New Black’ actress: My Parents Were Deported.  Diane Guerrero, LA Times (Nov. 15, 2014)
• This is Why We’re Mad at the Shooting of Mike Brown.  Kara Brown, Jezebel, (Aug. 11, 2014).
• The Whiteness Project. PBS.
• Why I Fear for My Sons.  By Kimberly Norwood (Aug. 25, 2014).  Middle class mom shares experiences of racial profiling and having brown skin.
• Discrimination Against the Disabled is a Problem.  By Caitlin Piper (Apr. 23, 2014).  On living with cerebral palsy among well-intentioned able-bodied people.
• The Box Doesn’t Fit.  By becky martinez (Mar. 4, 2014).  On bi and multi-racial identity.
• Why It’s Not Cool to Talk About Trans People’s ‘Private Parts‘.  Laverne Cox on Katie Couric.
• Cultural Appropriation 101: Featuring Geisha Katy Perry.  Lauren Duca (Nov. 25, 2013).
• A Brief History of Blackface.  Brian L.M. Kelley (Oct. 30, 2013).
• The Asian-American Awakening: that moment when you realize you’re not white.  Connie Zhou (Oct. 16, 2013).
• But You Speak So Well.  Sylvia L. Mazzula (Sept. 26, 2013).
• Disabled People as a Test of Character: The Guinness Commercial.  Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg (Sept. 4, 2013).

Educational newsletters, websites, and reports

• Transforming Perception: Black Men and Boys.  2014 report from the Perceptions Institute explores recommendations for reducing race-based disparities and defines racial anxiety, stereotype threat effects.
• ColorLines.  Colorlines is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning investigative reporting and news analysis. Colorlines is published by Race Forward, a national organization that advances racial justice through research, media and practice.
• Diversity Inc.  A national publication whose mission is to bring education and clarity to the business benefits of diversity.
• The Inclusionist Solution Daily.  Daily news on diversity & inclusion around the globe.
• Multicultural Calendar – includes 2014 religious holidays, international cultural days of observance, and awareness months (from the Office of Diversity & Inclusion at the Rochester Institute of Technology)
• The Race Card.  News and comment for a multi-ethnic Britain.
• The Root.  Black news, opinions, politics and culture.
• The Williams Institute.  Rigorous, independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy.