Interrupting Implicit Bias: Promoting Wellness and Inclusive Leadership in the Legal Profession
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About This Course
*The program is accessible via Zoom or Telephone.
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, so it is 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.
Course Time Schedule:
Eastern Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Central Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Mountain Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Pacific Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Alaska Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
This course is also being presented on the following dates:
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Thursday, August 31, 2023
*This course is not approved for Virginia CLE credit.
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...
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Abayomi Ajaiyeoba, Esq.
New York City Fire Department
Practice Area: Other
ABAYOMI AJAIYEOBA (“YOMI”) is a Legal Enforcement Attorney in FDNY’s Bureau of Legal Affairs’ Enforcement Unit. She is also the leader of CONNECT (“Civilian Organized Network Nurturing Excellence, Community and Trust,” FDNY’s first employment resource group dedicated to civilians and serves on the Fire Commissioner’s Diversity...
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