Recognizing and addressing biases is essential for creating inclusive environments in our daily and professional lives. Understanding the impact of microaggressions and learning strategies to manage them helps us foster respect and equity in and out of the workplace. This training aims to equip participants with the tools to identify and counteract biases, promoting a culture of inclusion and respect. 

By the end of this interactive training, attendees will: 

• Recognize and relate to implicit associations that we all hold and where they came from. 
• Increase their levels of awareness of deeply internalized bias and its manifestations within the self and the workplace.  
• Be empowered to deconstruct implicit and explicit cultures of bias and microaggressions, and the ways they show up in the self and in the workplace. 
• Be equipped with a toolkit of knowledge, background, vocabulary, and strategies that: combat bias, support our diverse workforce, and advance employee sense of belonging, inclusion and equity that will result in higher workplace morale, productivity, retention and overall organizational success. 

Presented by Dr. Nooshin Valizadeh, JEDI Consultant and Instructional Faculty + Artivist.

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Complimentary for CCALAC Members & Affiliates. 

Instructor Biography:

Dr. Nooshin Valizadeh (she/hers) is a trauma-informed facilitator, speaker, author and educator with a deep commitment to advancing racial equity, diversity, and inclusion in educational and organizational contexts. With a distinct focus on intersectionality, she approaches every initiative with an appreciation for the interconnected nature of identity and the challenges faced by under-resourced communities. Dr. Nooshin is a trilingual, passionate advocate for professional development, leveraging her expertise to enhance practitioner efficacy, and cultivate a more inclusive and equitable workplace climate. Her clients include school districts, universities, politicians, Fortune 500 companies, and more.  

A skilled spoken-word artist, she advocates for empowerment and awareness of the global community of historically under-resourced women and survivors of violence, as well as a nuanced and deeper understanding of identity and society around us. On the day of the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation in 2018, she was asked to perform her “Survivor Solidarity” poem in front of over 22,000 people, and was picked up by World Stage Press soon after. Her poetry book WOMXN, gives voice to the survivorhood and resistance of a womxn’s existence in America in the form of chapters that demonstrate ways in which WOMXN can be emotionally unhoused in exile, empowered in solidarity and more. Visit her at www.drnooshv.com. 

This training has been made possibly through the generous support of Cedars-Sinai.