1. Finding Home: Tools for Access & Inclusion
Kate Richmond
Muhlenberg College

2. Introduction
Kate Richmond Muhlenberg College

3. Think Pair Share
In what way has the current political climate influenced your work?

4. Hallmarks of a Post-Truth Era
Divisive and Extreme Rhetoric
Neglects objective fact and/or lacks details
Highly personalized
Information overload
Appeal to emotion
Consolidates power

5. What’s at Stake? Democracy (World Economic Forum, 2013)
Trust (Carlin & Love, 2013; Lewandowsky, Ecker, & Cook, 2017)
Decision-Making (Godlee, Smith, & Marcovitch, 2011)
Spread of misinformation is one of the 10 most significant threats to the world (World Economic Forum, 2013)
Erodes trust in people, leaders, and institutions

8. Discuss learned helplessness here
Codes of the street in order to survive – MAYBE ADD LEARNED HELPLESS NESS HERE

9. #metoo 'I'm not ashamed' and 'I'm not alone.'
'I see you, I hear you, I understand you and I'm here for you or I get it.‘”
Tanya Burke, 2017
Awareness and empathy

11. TRANSITION SLIDE INTO INTERSECTIONALITY
“we don’t have time to talk through all of theses, so I’ve included a handout with questions that can be used to interrogate science (chapter 1 stuff) – today we’re going to focus on intersectionality”

12. Intersectionality
Stems from scholarship of feminist women of color (Collins, 1990; Crenshaw,1989)
Shootings of women of color: We can remember names like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Gardner, Freddie Gray and Tamir Rice, but are less likely to remember Sandra Bland, Aiyana Jones, Rekia Boyd, and Sharleena Lyles

13. How to Understand Intersectionality
Beaded Necklace Model
Cake Model
(Ken, 2010; Spellman, 1990)

14. Addressing Model (Hayes, 2001)
Social Characteristic
Power
Less Power
Age
Adults
Children, adolescents, elders
Developmental disability
Neurotypical individuals
Neurodivergent individuals
Disability status (acquired)
People without a disability
People with acquired physical/ cognitive/psychological disability
Religion
Christians
Jews, Muslims, atheists, other non-Christians
Ethnicity
European Americans
People of color
Social class
Middle-class and educated people
Poor and working-class people
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual people
People with sexual minority identities
Indigenous background
Non-native people
Native peoples
National origin
U.S.-born people
Immigrants and refugees
Gender
Men
Female, transgender, intersex people

15. Dominant Group Subordinate Group
Has access to power and resources
Has reduced access to power and resources
Establishes norms and standards
Is perceived as less than or deviant from dominant norms and standards
Has limited awareness of or knowledge about subordinate groups
Has increased awareness of and knowledge about dominant groups
Is believed to be competent and credible—given the benefit of the doubt
Is viewed suspiciously—not given the benefit of the doubt
Creates “truth” or “reality”
Has its truth and experiences dismissed and/or invalidated
Members are seen as individuals
Members are seen as representing a group
Has a sense of belonging
Feels invisible or hyper-visible

16. Think Pair Share
Think about the ADDRESSING model in relation to yourself:
On which characteristics does your social group have power, and on which does it have less power?
Which of these characteristics do you routinely think of as part of your identity while you are at work?
At this conference, which characteristics are most represented and which are not?

17. Intersectionality & Invisibility
On memory tasks, people are:
Least likely to remember photos of Black women
(Sesko & Biernat, 2010)
Least likely to remember famous speeches by Black women (Biernat & Sesko, 2013)

18. The Paradox: Hypervisibility
Cause desire to be less direct
Try to crub anger, be sassy
Don’t take up too much space
Example: She is so hoodexample women and movement in the prison

19. Climate Matters… Microaggression:
brief, everyday act of bias, whether intentional or unintentional, that demean and insult a person based on that individuals identity
(Sue, 2010)
Perpetuated by people with good intentions, who don’t see what they are doing as stereotypical or problematic
Selective incivility –rude, condescending and ostracizing beliefs
Measures of cardiovascular activity
RULES AT SHELTERS

20. Examples connected to housing:
rules and regulations on moms
Movement in prison
Pregnant and sexualization

21. Think Pair Share Review the Example Microaggressions:
Have you or anyone you know ever experienced incidents like these? How did you handle it?
Can you think of a time when you inadvertently said or did something that you didn’t intend to be offensive, but that was perceived as offensive? If so, how did you handle it?

22. Intrapersonal Skills Interpersonal Skills Self awareness
Effective communication
Able to give and receive feedback/constructive criticism
Open-mindedness
Nonverbal skills of respect
Active listening skills
Articulate clear and succinct ideas
Intrapersonal Skills 
Self awareness
Ability to regulate unexpected emotions
Knowing personal strengths and limitations
Takes responsibility
Resiliency
Empathy
Interpersonal Skills = skills needed to interact properly with others
Person
Intrapersonal skills = skills and communications that occur within a person

23. Creating Networks Allyship
a lifelong process in which individuals who are privileged develop relationships with individuals who are marginalized as a way to address social injustice.

24. Resources Kate Richmond Helpful Resources krichmond@muhlenberg.edu