June means it's Gay Pride Month! Amber and Will invited back Nicki Vander Meulen, Esq. to discuss diversity and legal issues in the hiring process. Our question is “Why are Pride or Heritage months important?”, with an answer about how many social groups and how their contributions are sometimes overlooked. Because bias is more likely to happen while being spontaneous, the skill is Think Ahead.

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It's spring, so let's talk about discovering room to learn and grow from mistakes; constructive feedback is a good thing that you should be able to accept. The question covers pronouns and using "they" as a default until you know someone's pronouns. This episode's habit-breaking skill is Don’t Rely on Personal Objectivity: We’re better served by being mindful of ways biases may influence us.

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This Black History Month episode's main discussion topic focuses on the idea of Living Black History, and how Blackness is not a monolith, it touches on code-switching and the tyranny of categories. Guest Bernie Hoes is Black and gay, so the question is about that intersection; the habit-breaking skill is Don't Try to Ignore Group Statuses: acknowledge how they affect the lives of people.

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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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For Disability Awareness Month, guest Nicki Vander Meulen returns to talk about the ADA and how other movements, including the Black civil rights and gay rights, cooperated to help bring about the ADA. They discuss how accommodations help everyone, not just those with disabilities. The featured bias habit-breaking skill is to catch Untested Assumptions and not let biases perpetuate in our minds.

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A Trans* Awareness month episode with guest Sandy, who is a transgender nonbinary person! We talk tokenism, and the difference of including an underrepresented voice vs tokenizing a person to speak for a whole group & a variety of trans*-related issues, like pronouns, how to correct yourself if you slip up and misgender someone. Our bias habit-breaking skill is learning to Replace Stereotypes.

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With guest 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 U.S. She shares her perspectives on disability desegregation in schools; it's better for socialization. We cover language norms around disability. The bias habit-breaking skill is Do Perspective-Taking as a way drive inclusive behavior going forward.

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With guest Sandy Eichel, we discuss ways that stale notions of professionalism can stifle authenticity and increase marginalization. People are more productive when they can authentically express themselves through their appearance. Also, how to start diversity discussions in workplaces that seem to avoiding the topic. Our bias habit-breaking skill: Norm Enforcement as a way that biases play out.

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