Author Archives: Lorenza Alice D'Alessandro

If we want to address unconscious biases, we need to: 1. learn how they manifest 2. share each others’s experiences 3. acknowledging their effects, including the emotional ones 4. actively train ourselves on recognizing when they manifest daily 5. do not be judgemental – biases are mostly unintentional   It is a journey. It isContinue reading “Sharing is the key”

Why some people think that unconscious bias training are not useful? And why…they actually work! “Unconscious bias trainings reinforce biases, if not even justifying them on the basis that biases are part of natural information processing!”   I often read and encounterd thse comments. It always left me with a sense of discomfort and theContinue reading “On unconscious bias”

The beginning of my journey in equity and diversity started some years ago with new and positive energies. A clear path ahead. However, I soon realized the complexity of working in this field. Feeling stacked and unsecured. The ground I was handling was vulnerable. I took time and observed, experienced, learned, listened…to others and myself.Continue reading “The start of a journey…”