Equity & Engineering Practice Speaker Panel
Student-Led Environmental Justice in Engineering Colloquium
Student-Led Environmental Justice in Engineering Colloquium
The Equity & Engineering Practice Speaker Panel will discuss the importance of environmental justice in the context of engineering practice, with a particular emphasis on Civil & Environmental Engineering. The event will showcase perspectives on social position and the epistemological bases for work in environmental engineering, community organizing in engineering work, and the speakers’ experience with bringing engineers into justice work.
Please join President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell for a conversation with the Stanford community about racial justice initiatives underway at Stanford. The President and Provost will be joined by Claude Steele, Lucie Stern Professor Emeritus of Psychology, and Stanford Trustee Charles Young, chair of the newly formed Black Community Council.
Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winner, celebrated non-fiction writer, and prestigious journalist, joins the Stanford Community on January 28th to share her narrative and stories about race and inherent structural systems of racism found globally, as described in her new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
For more information on this speaker please visit prhspeakers.com.
Working with a community organization can be a rich learning opportunity, but how can you ensure that you contribute in a meaningful way and avoid inflicting unintended harm?
Through a dynamic mix of theory, demonstration, and practice, this two-session workshop provides a solid foundation for more principled, persuasive, and successful conversations in a variety
Join us for a virtual conversation with Stanford psychology professor and author Jennifer Eberhardt who will discuss her book, “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do.” An acclaimed and powerful examination of unconscious racial bias from one of the world’s leading experts the book has been selected as the second title for our collaboration with the Palo Alto Library’s virtual Palo Alto Reads series.
Join our Diversity Works discussion with Courtney Bonam, assistant professor of Psychology and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz.
In this session, we will explore everyday implicit, or unconscious, biases in the workplace: how to identify bias, how to address bias, and ultimately, how to make our unconscious biases conscious. We will cover the literature on bias and inclusion in education, academic medicine specifically, and the workplace more generally as we work together to building a more inclusive culture in our own spaces.
Join our Diversity Works discussion with Allison Anoll, assistant professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.