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08 Jul 2016

Talk Boldly – Today We Have To Talk to Each Other
I know that many of us are feeling devastated by the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille this week and now today the painful murders of the Dallas police officers gunned down at a peaceful protest. We had only begun to recover from the grief of those lost in Orlando weeks before or manage the anguish we feel as we see the death tolls reported on evening news every nig...
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21 Jun 2016

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Liz Dwyer, culture and education editor at TakePart magazine writes about race, parenting and social justice. ‘Circles of Voices’ workshops facilitate dialogue that participants say breaks down bias. Nine people shot and killed by a white supremacist in a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Jordan Davis, Rekia Boyd...
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09 Jun 2016

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Maya Salah quotes Vernā Myers in her article on Diversity and Inclusion: How does an organization that is invested in diversity of gender, race, age and sexuality make its mark? June 8, 2016 Minnesota ranks as one of the best places to live in the U.S. for quality of life, with a strong economy and a thriving job market. Historically, it has been a racially homogenous state. The influ...
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02 Jun 2016

JANET CHO, The Plain Dealer writes about Verna for the Cleveland.com Business Section on May 27, 2016 CLEVELAND, Ohio — Diversity and inclusion consultant Verna Myers recently told the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association that she’s more than qualified to teach others to think about their unconscious biases, “because I’ve been dealing with diversity my whole life,” she said. “I’ve b...
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08 Apr 2016

Sharing big ideas
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...
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17 Mar 2016

Bias-proofing the justice system

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.”

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