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Eliminating Bias, Prejudices, and Stereotyping through Increasing Your Understanding of Others

by Shelley Benhoff

Eliminating Bias, Prejudices, and Stereotyping through Increasing Your Understanding of Others provides technical professionals with insight into the struggles of marginalized groups in the workplace through interviews with industry experts.

What you'll learn

Unconscious bias in the workplace is still a problem and it can cause you to lose talent within your organization. In this course, Eliminating Bias, Prejudices, and Stereotyping through Increasing Your Understanding of Others, you’ll gain the ability to understand and empathize with people from marginalized groups through interviews with industry experts. First, you’ll explore supporting the LGBTQIA community featuring JQueery Queen. Next, you’ll learn about removing gender bias with Shawn Wildermuth. After that, you'll understand religious prejudice with Carlos Rodriguez. Finally, you’ll learn how to avoid ableist language with Kari Harbath. By the end of this course, you will be able to better understand the struggles of marginalized groups in tech so that you may support them and be an ally in the workplace.

About the author

Shelley has 20+ years of experience in IT as an Entrepreneur, Manager, Trainer, Docker Community Leader, and Sitecore MVP. She has a passion for tiaras, technology, gaming, and general nerdery. She loves to learn new things as well as mentor and teach others. She teaches leadership, communication, Docker, and Sitecore development. Shelley aims to provide her students with an immersive learning experience, not just a bunch of lectures and handouts. She has studied learning and instructional desig... more

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