Bias By Us: How Our Unconscious Programs Us to Harm the Other

Black, White, or Other? “Pedro, Pedro, go back to Mexico.” “Pedro, Pedro, go back to Mexico.” “Pedro, Pedro, go back to Mexico.” Being Black and growing up in the South—between Virginia and Mississippi—with a name like Pedro Senhorinha Ramos Montero Silva brought in many unwelcomed experiences in my life. One of which was the otheringContinueContinue reading “Bias By Us: How Our Unconscious Programs Us to Harm the Other”

Know Who Your Audience Is and Who It Isn’t

One night I woke up from a dream that I was supposed to give a speech to thousands of people. But, we kept having technical difficulties and having to start the session over. This happened 7 times and with each restart, we would lose people until there was only about 40 people left. These 40ContinueContinue reading “Know Who Your Audience Is and Who It Isn’t”