Keynote Speaker:
john a. powell, Director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society

Speaker:
Carlee Beth Hawkins, Researcher, Project Implicit

Moderator:
Brian Smedley, Vice President, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

john a. powell is an internationally recognized expert and scholar in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy. In addition to being Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Professor powell holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion and serves as the director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. At the Consumer Health Foundation's annual meeting, Professor powell will provide an overview of implicit bias and describe how it operates at the societal level to structure opportunity.

Carlee Beth Hawkins is a researcher with Project Implicit, a virtual laboratory for research and education of implicit cognition—thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness or control. Dr. Hawkins will share some data derived from Project Implicit's Implicit Association Test. She will discuss bias from the individual and organizational levels and conduct an exercise with the audience to help them observe, in real-time, how implicit bias works.

Brian Smedley is the vice president at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a research and policy organization that seeks to ensure that people of color have equal opportunities to achieve their full potential and have a voice in decisions that affect them. The Joint Center is widely acknowledged as one of the nation's leading think tanks focused on issues of concern to African Americans and other people of color. Dr. Smedley brings to this conversation his experience documenting implicit bias in health care settings. He will moderate the discussion.