Audit your program

Check Our Biases to Wreck Our Biases

Second in a New York Times series on implicit bias, looking at how implicit bias works in selection situations and how some people are auditing their own implicit biases.

Australia’s media has been too white for too long. This is how to bring more diversity to newsrooms

Article outlining ways to bring more diversity to Australian newsrooms, including offering increased training to CALD journalists, strengthening talent pipelines through better CALD networks, mentorships and events; improving CALD talent pipelines and consulting with people of colour. It also recommends undertaking and publishing regular diversity audits.

'The ABC and SBS publish regular diversity reports, and arguably, the very existence of these reports shows some progress is being made.'

Speed Museum Turns to a Spreadsheet to Increase Diversity

Article on the strategy of the Speed Art Museum in the US to diversify their board of trustees and governors, by auditing the attributes of members.

'Ghislain d’Humières, the French-born director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., uses a long and detailed spreadsheet to recruit people for the museum’s board of governors and board of trustees. His “board matrix” assigns columns to race, age, gender and profession, and to less concrete categories like “creative thinker.”'