Diverse Joy ® Podcast
& Educational Video Series

With Dr. William T. L. Cox
& Dr. Amber Nelson

Infusing science, practical skills, and joy into diversity discussions!

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Episodes of Diverse Joy Release the First Wednesday of Each Month

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Infusing Joy into Diversity Discussions

Diverse Joy is the official podcast of Inequity Agents of Change.

Cohosted by Dr. Cox and Dr. Nelson, with occasional guests, Diverse Joy is a free monthly podcast and educational video series. In each episode, the cohosts share some of the joy from their lives, discuss a diversity topic, answer audience questions, teach an evidence-based bias habit-breaking skill to help you in your efforts to reduce bias and promote inclusion and equity, and more! Their goal is educate while keeping you entertained, and most of all, to infuse joy into diversity discussions.

Diverse Joy is ranked in the top 5% of all podcasts globally, many teachers and professors use the educational videos in their classrooms, and many organizations use Diverse Joy as a monthly diversity activity. As its title implies, it focuses on infusing joy back into diversity discussions. Joy is both practical and scientifically justified as a weapon against bias.

Diverse Joy is currently ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally (by Listen Notes) and has been since January 2025

Submit Questions and Topic Ideas for an Episode of Diverse Joy

We use audience questions in each episode of the podcast; if you have a question related to a topic in the realm of bias, diversity, equity, or inclusion, please send it our way!

If you have a relevant topic idea that you think would be a good subject for one our episodes’ main discussions, we’d love to hear it, too!

You can also just share your joy with us!

Please submit any of the above ideas using this form, and it may be featured on a future episode!

Dr. Cox and Dr. Nelson pose for a promotional photo; he is wearing a silver blazer and glasses, she is wearing a black leather jacket and glasses. They are seated at a table and their hands are resting on the table.

Season 1 of Diverse Joy was sponsored primarily by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number R35GM128888. The content is solely the responsibility of the speakers and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Production is also supported by donations to our nonprofit, Inequity Agents of Change.

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Meet the Diverse Joy Team

William T. L Cox, Phd

Co-Host
Dr. Cox on LinkedIn
Dr. Cox on X (formerly Twitter)
Amber Nelson, PsyD

Co-Host
Dr. Nelson on LinkedIn
Dr. Nelson on Instagram
Eric Roman Beining, MFA

Producer
Eric Roman on LinkedIn
Eric Roman on Instagram

The Diverse Joy theme and interstitial music was composed and performed by Jay Arner

Guests of Diverse Joy have included:

Sandy Eichel, a wealth management advisor and international speaker; they’ve been on to discuss “What is Professionalism Anyway?”, trans* and nonbinary identity related topics, and in our April 2025 episode, recognizing and correcting your own biases!
Nicki Vander Meulen, a lawyer focused on disability issues and the first-ever openly autistic person to be elected to a school board in the United States; she’s been on to discuss disability desegregation in schools, and how the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA) has lead to accommodations to help everyone.
Valeria Martinez, an immigration attorney; she was on the November 2024 episode to discuss an array of topics and history related to immigration in the United States, as well as the role of the law in mandating fairness, asylum seekers, the definition of migrants as compared to refugee.
Bernie Hoes, an educator; he was on earlier this year to discuss “Living Black History” and how Black identity is not a monolith.

Diverse Joy Episodes

Listen to Diverse Joy on your favorite podcasting app (or watch on YouTube) with the links in the carousel below; or use episode pages here with embedded media players for the audio or the video for each.

Episodes are listed in reverse chronological order, with our most recent episode displayed first. Once you’re on an episode page, you can navigate to the next episode (in either direction) from that page. And episodes are tagged with relevant keywords to help you find related episodes!

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William Cox 9/3/25 William Cox 9/3/25

Alpha, Boomer, Millennial: Learn about Generational Biases

In the 2nd season finale of "Diverse Joy", Dr. Cox & Dr. Nelson talk generational bias and age discrimination, while celebrating the 40th anniversary of "The Golden Girls" in September 2025. This episode's bias habit-breaking skill is to Broaden Your Input via Media to help expand the types of experiences and people that you're exposed to for the purposes of reducing bias and creating inclusion.

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William Cox 5/7/25 William Cox 5/7/25

Healing and Understanding Intergenerational and Collective Traumas

This episode has a lot of talk about Star Wars (the Skywalkers are the epitome of intergenerational trauma, right?) The discussion focuses on epigenetics and the ways in which events like the murder of George Floyd create collective trauma for members of related group. Learn to Broaden Your Input via Images in the Environment: increase representation in your physical and digital environments.

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William Cox 11/6/24 William Cox 11/6/24

Learning About Immigration With Guest Valeria Martinez

Valeria Martinez, Esq., an immigration attorney, joins Drs. Cox and Nelson to talk legal issues related to immigration, including some historical information related to the topic, as well as the role of the law in mandating fairness, asylum seekers, the definition of migrants as compared to refugees. And Broaden Your Input via Contact: Seek positive, genuine contact with those different from you.

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William Cox 10/4/23 William Cox 10/4/23

Joyful Representation of Interracial Relationships on TV

For this Halloween episode, Will and Amber we discuss representation of interracial relationships and racial diversity in the media, especially I Love Lucy and Star Trek (and go down a rabbit hole of many others). Representation Matters! Plus, issues surrounding actors being cast to portray people with identities they don't share. The bias habit-breaking skill is Broaden Your Input Via the Media.

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