Keynote Address

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Thursday, November 16 | 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM U.S. Pacific Time 
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Jennifer Eberhardt
Stanford University, USA

Abstract
Using a variety of methodological approaches, Dr. Eberhardt will highlight how racial bias can permeate our criminal justice system, our neighborhoods, our schools, and our workplaces - and what we can do to address it. 

About Jennifer
A social psychologist at Stanford University, Jennifer L. Eberhardt conducts research on race and inequality. Through interdisciplinary collaborations and a wide-ranging array of methods—from laboratory studies to novel field experiments—Eberhardt has revealed the startling, and often dispiriting, extent to which racial imagery and judgments shape actions and outcomes in our criminal justice system and in our neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.

After receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard University, Eberhardt joined the faculty at Yale University in Psychology and in African & African American Studies. She joined the Stanford faculty in 1998, where she is currently a Professor of Organizational Behavior, a Professor of Psychology, and a Faculty Director of Stanford SPARQ (a center that builds research-driven partnerships with industry leaders and changemakers to combat bias, reduce disparities, and drive culture change). In 2014, Eberhardt was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow and one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. In 2016, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the National Academy of Sciences. In 2022, she was elected to the British Academy as a Corresponding Fellow. And in 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society - the oldest learned society in the United States, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge.”

Eberhardt is deeply committed to public service and over the years has been invited to speak about her work at the White House, the U.S. Department of Justice, the State of California Department of Justice, the Supreme Court of California, and the California State Capitol, among other places. In 2019, she published Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We, See, Think, Do, which has received book awards from the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and was runner-up for a non-fiction Literary Peace Prize. She was also the first social scientist to win the Rockefeller University Lewis Thomas prize, an international book award established to honor the scientist as poet. From 2021-2022, Eberhardt served as president of the Association for Psychological Science – an organization with over 25,000 members worldwide. Amid unprecedented inequality and growing polarization around the world, she is enlisting science in the fight for equal justice.

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