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Implicit Bias:

Let's Talk About It!

A Community Conversation

April 24, 2023 (12:30 PM - 01:30 PM)

FIMR Community Action Team

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Respect Everyone-Ground Rules

Speak Your Truth
Seek to Understand
Respect Others’ Experience
Disagree Without Conflict
Make room for all voices to be heard, don’t dominate the conversation.
Confidentiality
Take Care of Yourself

How to Participate

ZOOM:

Please feel free to use the Chat function to share your thoughts during the conversation and ask questions
If you would like to come off mute, please raise your hand.

In-Person:

Raise your hand if you want to make a comment or would like to ask a question.

Speak Your Truth: Share from your own experiences
Seek to Understand: Actively listen, before responding
Respect Others’ Experience: We may have different OR similar stories to share, and contexts to draw from. All are legitimate.
Disagree Without Discord: Disagreement is expected. HOWEVER,

Approach unexpected ideas with curiosity, not argument.
If you disagree, debate and challenge ideas. Don’t attack the speaker.

Share the Air: Make room for all voices to be heard, and don’t dominate the conversation.
Confidentiality:

Share stories and experiences, but don’t identify individual people or provide details that would allow someone in your story to be identified.
Do not share the experiences you hear in this space outside this space.

Take Care of yourself: We recognize that talking about implicit bias may be difficult for some. If you find the conversation too hard to listen to, please make sure to remove yourself from the situation and reconnect with us after to see how your voice can help support the work we are trying to do.

https://www.umass.edu/diversity/Verne-Myers-Session-2-Guide

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Implicit Bias: Break it down

Implicit bias refers to the unconscious (or automatic) attitudes or stereotypes that affect how we think, act and make decisions. These are often linked to people based on things like race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or looks. These links form over a lifetime.

Everyone has implicit biases
They can be good or bad
Our implicit biases do not always reflect our values or thoughts
Implicit biases can be changed and managed by new experiences and our efforts to address how we act.

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Themes brought up at our last conversation

How implicit bias is perpetuated by the media
Implicit bias and the educational system
The contribution of implicit bias and inequity to disparities in healthcare outcomes
The difficulty of addressing implicit bias in a world with systems of perceived professional and personal hierarchy (Doctor/Patient or Individual/Parents/Grandparents)

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Our Panel

Antonique Akua

Birth worker and Community Advocate

Shalonda Carter

Birth worker and Community Advocate

Dr. Dhara Amin

Emergency Medicine

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What's next?�Community Aimed Action

What can we do to address this issue?
What resources or tools do you think would help address this?

Workshops on the topic
Resource Guide

Next Steps

Think about what we can do as a community to address this issue. We will be sending out a quick survey asking you for feedback on actions we can create to help everyone address this issue in the coming weeks.

LET'S CONTINUE THIS CONVERSATION AND SHIFT TO ACTION!

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Save the Date!

Continue this conversation with us!

July 24, 2023 (12:30 PM to 01:30 PM)

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Questions or Comments-Let us know!��Website: https://www.fimrchicago.org/implicitbias��Email: fimr@bsd.uchicago.edu