Interrupting Implicit Bias: Promoting Wellness and Inclusive Leadership in the Legal Profession
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About
This Course
Implicit bias poses harm because it interferes with inclusion and affects expanding diversity within the legal profession amongst practitioners, clients, and all of those that attorneys serve. Even when lawyers have the best intentions, implicit bias may appear, which is why it is so important to be cognizant of how automatic associations impact others in the legal community.
This course will benefit everyone in the legal community: lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals seeking a better understanding of what we can do as individuals to identify, become aware, and use mindfulness as a tool to combat implicit bias and advance inclusion and diversity within the legal profession and beyond.
This course will:
- examine the neuroscience of implicit bias and how it impacts the legal profession;
- provide tools aimed to combat implicit bias in the legal profession
- specifically the workplace, such as mindfulness as an inclusion nudge; and
- explore how to heal the harm through restorative practice, all of which shapes inclusive leadership.
Attorneys and legal professionals interested in exploring alternative tools for addressing implicit bias are encouraged to attend this program.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the neuroscience of implicit bias and its impact on the legal profession
- Learn which tools work to interrupt implicit bias in the legal workplace, with an emphasis on mindfulness
- Investigate the best practices to achieve positive outcomes via changes in behavior
About the Presenters
Nandar Win Kerr, Esq.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Practice Area: Other
Nandar Win Kerr is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Project Manager at Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Prior to working for PBS, she worked with the Morning Heights Legal Services at the Columbia University School of Law, the National Association of Immigration Judges and Judge Mimi Tsankov, the New York Legal Assistance Group Pro Se Litigants Clinic and LegalHealth Unit's Veterans Project, the Fordham Courtroom Advocates Project in Brooklyn Family Court, and the Fordham Consumer Law Advocates' Civil Legal Advice and Resource Office program, representing program to assist consumers sued by creditors in NYC. She has also volunteered for the City ...
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Hon. Abayomi Ajaiyeoba
Brooklyn Family Court
Practice Area: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (+ 5 other areas)
Honorable Abayomi Ajaiyeoba ("Yomi") is a New York Family Court Judge with over 20 years of legal experience and is a thought leader who champions diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.She is passionate about fostering positive and psychologically safe work environments and communities. Firmly believing in the power of mindfulness, restorative practices, wellness, and holistic approaches, she dedicates herself to integrating these principles into her professional and community work.Before ascending to the bench, Yomi worked with the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), for seven years where she played a key role in ensuring legal compliance with applicable fire safety laws.Judge ...
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