Pamela Paresky and Lee Jussim

Pamela Paresky is a senior fellow at the Network Contagion Research Institute. A social psychologist with a clinical background, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Politico, Sapir, Psychology Today and the Guardian. She is currently an associate at Harvard University’s psychology department in Steven Pinker’s Lab, and has taught at Johns Hopkins, the University of Chicago and the United States Air Force Academy.
Lee Jussim is a senior fellow at the Network Contagion Research Institute, a distinguished professor of psychology at Rutgers University, a former chair of the criminal justice program and departments of psychology and anthropology and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most recent book is The Poisoning of the American Mind.

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Pamela Paresky and Lee Jussim

A reckoning with DEI pedagogy

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion bureaucracies and programs have become ubiquitous in the corporate and educational sectors. More than half of American employees have DEI meetings or training events at work, at a cost of an estimated $8 billion annually. These initiatives are championed as tools to reduce bias and discrimination, build inclusive and empathetic environments — and redress systemic racism,  Yet the effectiveness of such trainings has rarely been rigorously and systematically evaluated. When studies have been undertaken, not only are results mixed at best, the prevailing focus has been on potential benefits, with notable exceptions: some programs have been found to reduce organizational diversity and others to produce resentment.

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