Making the Most of Implicit Bias Training - King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center

Making the Most of Implicit Bias Training
Friday, February 26, 2021
12:00-1:00 pm (HST)

Every person has and faces unconscious bias, which plays a crucial role in how we perceive individual and collective achievements. To better understand ways that we all carry unconscious biases, many organizations in Hawaii’s legal community are offering implicit bias trainings to their employees or are now exploring options to hold additional trainings. Join us for a conversation about strengthening these trainings in order to identify and address the bias itself, and also to create space for the conversations that arise once biases and actions needed to eliminate discriminatory behaviors are recognized.

Introduction by Professor Susan Serrano, Associate Director of Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law. Panel presentation by Louise Ing, Partner at Dentons’ Honolulu office (moderator); Professor Justin Levinson, Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law; Jamila Jarmon, In-House Counsel at Elemental Excelerator; and Keahe Davis, Education Director at the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center.

Panelists

Justin D. Levinson

Professor of Law @William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Professor Levinson is a leader in the field of implicit bias and the law and an expert in psychological decision-making in the legal system. His scholarship, which regularly employs experimental social science methodology, has appeared in the NYU Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, UCLA Law Review, and Duke Law Journal, among others, and has been cited by the United States Supreme Court. He served as lead editor of Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law, a volume that was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 (co-edited by Robert J. Smith). He has lectured, taught courses, and trained audiences globally, including in Eastern and Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. In 2008, Professor Levinson founded the Culture and Jury Project, an interdisciplinary and international research collaboration devoted to facilitating the study of human decision-making in the law. He is currently collaborating with scholars in the US, China, Japan, and Korea.

Jamila Jarmon

In-House Counsel @Elemental Excelerator

Jamila was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is a graduate of the George Washington University and William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. As a practicing attorney, Jamila has experience in civil litigation, real estate, poverty law, and environmental law. She has served on numerous boards, and currently serves on the Popolo Project and Aloha Harvest Boards, and has worked with many community organizations, including the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children in Hawaii and at the Domestic Violence Action Center. She is currently In-House Counsel at Elemental Excelerator, a cleantech growth accelerator based in Honolulu. In 2019, Jamila was named one of Hawaii’s most influential young leaders by Pacific Business News as one of the 40 Under 40 and she was selected as a Pacific Century Fellow to be part of a cohort of emerging leaders creating innovative solutions to Hawaii’s problems.

Keahe Davis

Education Director @King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center

Keahe Davis is the Education Director at the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his B.A. in European Studies from Loyola Marymount University and his M.Ed. in Learning Design and Technology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has designed instructional programs focused on implicit bias and conducted training programs on the topic.

Making the Most of Implicit Bias Training Friday, February 26, 2021 12:00-1:00 pm (HST)

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Making the Most of Implicit Bias Training
Friday, February 26, 2021
12:00-1:00 pm (HST)