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Sylvia Perry, Ph.D. Speaker & Consultant
Sylvia Perry, Ph.D. has expertise in the effects of personal (conscious and unconscious) and systemic bias on the health and wellbeing of racial minorities; and the development and implications of racial bias awareness. She continues to conduct research on the positive and negative consequences of holding racial bias awareness, reducing anxiety within interracial interactions, and…
John Dovidio, PhD. President of the Board of Directors.

My work focuses on factors that support or undermine organizations’ and groups’ ability to achieve their inclusion, diversity and equity goals. I have deep expertise on both conscious (explicit) and unconscious (implicit) influences on how people think about, feel about, and behave toward others based on group categories such as race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, etc. I…

Rachel Hardeman expert on inequalities in health care delivery
Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH: Speaker & Consultant

Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH is an expert in the way racism (e.g. implicit bias, explicit bias, stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, colorblind ideology, institutional/systemic racism and the white racial frame) leads to inequalities in health care delivery. She has two interrelated areas of interest and expertise: 1) The impact of racism in all its manifestations  (implicit bias,…

Sean Phelan, PhD, MPH: Speaker & Consultant

Sean Phelan, Ph.D. has expertise on the influence of stigma, identity threat, microaggression & biases on both organizational members and on the people they serve.  He has special interest and expertise on the effect of health care provider biases and attitudes on the quality and content of clinical care, as well the effect of perceived stigma and…

Michelle van Ryn, PhD, Professor, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine Executive Director Partners in Equity & Inclusion
Michelle van Ryn, PhD, MPH. Executive Director.
Michelle van Ryn, Ph.D., is the Founder and Executive Director of Partners in Equity and Inclusion, a non-profit organization whose mission is to translate the best current evidence into practical and effective approaches for achieving true equity, and deep diversity and inclusion. She is also the Director of the Research Program on Equity & Inclusion in Healthcare at…