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Implicit Bias Awareness training sponsored by ORSP
Committee Updates / All Staff Activities
- ORSP-sponsored event with Dr. Bryant Marks (2/1/2024)
- ORSP All Staff Jamboard Activity (12/19/2023)
- ORSP All Staff - 10-minute update - AACHM and James Baldwin Video (2/20/2023)
- ORSP All Staff - 10-minute update - MLK Day (1/16/2023)
- ORSP All Staff - 10-minute update - Indigenous Peoples Month (11/30/22)
- ORSP All Staff - Intro to DEI and Unconscious Bias - Session 3 (4/20/2022)
- ORSP All Staff - Intro to DEI and Unconscious Bias - Session 2 (4/12/2022)
- ORSP All Staff - Intro to DEI and Unconscious Bias - Session 1 (3/23/2022)
- All Staff Presentation - November 1, 2021 (11/1/2021)
- DEI: The Basics (U-M HR) - June 2020 (6/2020)
ORSP DEI Media Club
The DEI Media Club is one of the initiatives sponsored by the DEI Internal Experience Subcommittee. The Media Club plans and holds discussions around DEI-related books, articles, podcasts, videos, films, and more.
- One type of diversity we don’t talk about at work: Body size
- Weight bias and obesity stigma: considerations for the WHO European Region
- Why is ageism in the workplace increasing?
- Dismissed: The health risk of being a woman - Today Show
- Ebony magazine article about U-M Professor Tony Reames work with Energy and Poverty
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (Netflix documentary)
- The 1619 Project Podcast
- "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
NCURA DEI Series
ORSP DEI Committee Members
- Emily Baxter
- Constance Colthorp
- Cindy Dames
- Debra Dill (OVPR Liaison)
- Joe Johnson
- Tracey Larkin
- Daniela Marchelletta
- Priscilla Pinchem
- Becca Timmermans
- Elaina Wiggins
Thank you to the ninety-one OVPR staff members who attended the ORSP-sponsored implicit bias awareness training session with Dr. Bryant Marks on February 1.
Post-event training slides available from NTIRE's Brake Your Bias curriculum
ORSP was delighted to welcome Dr. Bryant Marks, a U-M alum and founder of the National Training Institute on Race and Equity (NTIRE), for a synchronous and virtual professional development event.
Thank you to the ninety-one OVPR staff members who attended the ORSP-sponsored implicit bias awareness training session on February 1. NTIRE delivered an interactive, dynamic, and exceptionally well-researched presentation that included an in-depth exploration of multiple facets of implicit bias from NTIRE's Brake Your Bias curriculum.
It was a pleasure to have staff from several OVPR units attend and engage on Zoom for this event.
NTIRE recently shared the slides from this event.
OVPR attendees can request these slides by writing to orsp-dei@umich.edu.
Biography of Presenter
Rev. Dr. Bryant Marks, Sr. is an award-winning educator, a highly-regarded researcher, trainer, and former member of the Obama Administration. Dr. Marks is the Founder and Chief Equity Officer of the National Training Institute on Race and Equity (NTIRE), and a tenured professor of Psychology at Morehouse College. He earned his Master’s and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Marks conducts research and professional development in the areas of diversity and implicit bias, Black male psychology and development, and personal passion and productivity. Over the past five years, Dr. Marks provided implicit bias training to over 100,000 employees and volunteers in law enforcement, city, county, and federal government, corporations, education, and healthcare.
Thank you to those who helped make this event possible
ORSP DEI Committee
Constance Colthorp *
Cindy Dames *
Debra Dill (OVPR Liaison) *
Joe Johnson
Lisa Kiel *
Tracey Larkin *
Daniela Marchelletta
Priscilla Pinchem
Becca Timmermans
Eric Ward *
Elaina Wiggins
ORSP Leadership
Shandra White, AVP for ORSP *
Andrea Anderson *
Andy Satkowiak
OVPR Leadership
Dr. Trachette Jackson,* Associate VP for DEI Initiatives
Sabrina Ervin,* DEI Program Manager
* Indicates Planning Committee
NTIRE Team
Rev. Dr. Bryant T. Marks Sr.
Dr. Kimberly Marks
Bobbie Brandon
Paulette Weems
