Big Ideas with Vernā Myers
Learning how to move diversity forward
By Laurie D. Borman | April 8, 2016
Vernā Myers, an African American woman who grew up in a Baltimore working class family, graduated from Harvard Law School, and became an entrepreneur, author, and cultural innovator. For the last 20 years, she’s been working to help eradicate barriers of race, gender, ethnicity, and s...
In this 10-minute training video designed to increase more awareness of implicit bias in the courtroom and provide positive steps to bias-proof our justice system, Vernā encourages judges to “slow down your evaluation…do your personal inventory…and ignore your guts.”