Equity in Action: An Inclusive Practices Series for Faculty
Disrupting Oppressive Systems through Allyship
Friday, April 23, 2021 · 1 - 2:30 PM
The Aspire Alliance is excited to host a six-part seminar series built upon work developed through Aspire's Summer Institute, which was piloted in June 2020. The seminar series is grounded in Aspire's Inclusive Faculty Framework and the Collective Impact professional development Aspire has done internally focused on understanding our work on a continuum between social equity and social justice. Through this collaboration we will offer two seminars this fall and four through winter/spring 2021.
Seminar #6 (This Seminar): Inclusive Colleagues & Leadership: Disrupting Oppressive Systems through Ally Development and Commitment. This session directs our attention toward faculty treatment of each other as leaders and as colleagues. We’ll review and discuss research that bridges organizational psychology and diversity science to explore the persistence of implicit bias that derails the careers of URG scientists through epistemic exclusion and the diversity innovation paradox. We’ll also dive into the ways in which colorblindness and microaggressions in STEM workplaces create systems of exclusion and marginalization for URG members. Most importantly our session will provide participants with the opportunity to reflect and practice disrupting these oppressive systems through ally development and commitment.
