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    Minimizing Implicit Bias

    Date: August 28, 2024, 11:00am – 12:30pm
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    CDHRA is excited to offer an additional, special presentation for members on the topic of Implicit Bias. Having a better understanding of our own unconscious beliefs will help organizations create a more diverse and inclusive workplace.  A workplace that inspires innovation and growth and better understanding from employees to leadership. Join us on August 28th at 11:00 am CT for a presentation by Emily Shuman Director of the Rocky Mountain ADA Center.  Participants will also be taking part in a research study on Implicit Bias by Project Implicit. There will be a pre and post survey from Project Implicit. 

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    Minimizing Implicit Bias, Presented by Emily Shuman Director, Rocky Mountain ADA Center

    Often, discrimination happens in organizations because of unconscious thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions about people with disabilities. Our implicit biases are frequently a better predictor of our actions than our stated beliefs. Based on leading-edge research in bias mitigation, we know that the most effective anti-bias training incorporates strategies on both the personal and institutional levels. This training provides solutions to both. Participants are invited to consider their own biases, and the unintended consequences of those biases. Strategies will be provided for ameliorating personal biases, and those that are situated in the policies and practices of the organization. This course offers a path toward a more culturally inclusive organizational environment. This training will be focused on awareness of disability bias.

    Participants will be asked to complete an online assessment through Project Implicit and will be asked to participate in our study, measuring implicit and explicit bias.

     

    Biography Emily Shuman Director, Rocky Mountain ADA Center

    Emily Shuman leads all of the Rocky Mountain ADA Center’s workforce and daily operations. She mentors RMADAC’s staff to ensure her team has the tools needed to deliver on the center’s mission to supply informative technical assistance, customized eLearning courses & (online and in person) training(s), effective information dissemination and concise outbound communications.

    Shuman works closely with center directors from across the national network to improve operational practices and program(s) including spearheading efforts to increase accessible social media & website practices within the collective.

    She is RMADAC’s public spokesperson and works directly with regional, and national media to ensure the public understands their rights and responsibilities under the ADA. An accomplished writer, Shuman contributes op-ed pieces and informational articles. She also hosts the center’s popular podcast initiative which features many noted guests including Senator Tammy Duckworth and former Major League Baseball All-Star Jim Abbott.

    Before joining RMADAC, Shuman spent four years as in workforce development, serving Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act recipients as a case and program manager. She specialized in supporting youth with disabilities by educating them on their ADA employment rights. Shuman also facilitated compliance with ADA Title II responsibilities for youth requiring reasonable modifications to access workforce services. Prior to those roles, she spent three years as a program supervisor for adults with developmental disabilities living in host homes under an HCBS waiver.

    Emily has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Information Technology-Management. She contributes articles to the Colorado Springs Mom Collective and the Southern Colorado native enjoys the outdoors and spending time with her teen son.