Announcements: Class

• Please remind me to press “RECORD” if needed. Thanks in advance.
• Tandon Career Services
• Today is National Voter Registration Day. NYU Votes
  • Tisch Voter Registration Table until 9pm today
• Resource of the day: Skintone experiment (from Brianna)

Agenda

• Student Blog Spot Talk (chosen at random)
• Diversity & Demographics in the workplace
  • NYU Recap: Facts, Institutional Research and Data Integrity, Tandon.
  • Workplaces Recap (including domestic and rural): Mercer’s Women & Minorities Report, WEF: Global Gender Gap
    • A workplace-related note from the Pew Report on Views of Diversity in the US and Tech Diversity Reports summary in WIRED
    • Gates Foundation Goalkeepers
  • Wrap-up: How to determine Substantive v. Performative
• Microaggressions: A school, workplace, and social issue
  • A Brief Guide to Microaggressions and more in today’s session folder.
  • Share back: Jamboard
• Medical Tech: What is the tech in Medical Apartheid, Chapter 7?

Assignments

• Due Thursday 9/24:
  • Phase 1, Blog Post #6: 
    • Please write about strategies you might employ to address microaggressions in the future, when you experience them 1) as a target and 2) as a witness.
    • [If you feel ready, otherwise wait until Post #7] Discuss a piece of fictional pop culture media that you think propagates (or analyzes) the biases that derived from historical medical discrimination. I will ask you to add it to a spreadsheet very soon. (Hint: Medical dramas, legal dramas, and superhero stories can be a good place to start.) We screen these clips throughout the semester.
  • If you haven’t finished the Required Reading: Read or listen to Chapter 7 of Medical Apartheid by medical ethicist Harriet Washington. This chapter takes a deep dive into the specifics of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
    • Option 1: Read through Bobst or Course Reserves 
    • Option 2: Listen to Chapter 7.1 and 7.2 (chapter ends halfway through the second recording)

Announcements + Extra Credit

• Events:
  • 9/22: GEN Z Votes: Fight for the Youth Vote by NYU Votes and other orgs
  • 9/23: How to Implement Reparations in America by NYU Wagner
  • 9/24: High Level Event on COVID-19 and the role of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Building Resilience and Sustaining Social Cohesion and Peace by NYU Center for International Cooperation.
  • 9/24: Colombia in Flux: The Challenges of Peacebuilding in the Midst of Violence and Insecurity by NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 
• Write a post about any of the following:
  • Five Years of Tech Diversity Reports—and Little Progress (WIRED)
  • Pew Report on Views of Diversity in the US (Pew Research)
  • Taking a Tandon Makerspace training. The new training protocol is more complex during the pandemic, so I’d be interested to know about your experience.
  • Trans-Inclusive Practices in the Classroom (NYU). Targeted to instructors, but has a lot of generally useful info.
  • Any events above.

Opportunities

• Internship hiring now: Design Assistant @ Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU
• Internship hiring now: NYU Center on International Cooperation
• Internship opportunity for summer: Apple Siri Experience Prototyping