Think Tank Membership is designed to serve communities of professional practitioners who strive to be well informed, educated, and current on the multiple and often complex facets that define diversity and inclusion.Membership is open to corporations, governments and governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), nonprofits, and educational institutions.
Because our perspective is both national and global, we explore diversity and inclusion subjects through multiple prisms and often in multiple languages. We seek to engage in the fascinating conversations that concern us all: understanding the human experience, respecting the dignity of individuals, and maximizing people assets.
Through “member only” areas of our website, we offer access to strategic management tools, global social and environmental responsibility initiatives, and virtual learning. Through the daily eNewsletter and Web Magazine, we also provide multi-media opportunities to Think Tank members in order to extend their reach as caring diversity organizations.
What Is the Executive Diversity Council?
Formed at the request of many diversity professionals, the mission of the Executive Diversity Council is to serve the professional growth of the greater community of diversity and inclusion practice - to help identify best strategies, the most effective implementation of those strategies, lessons learned, trends, and challenges going forward.
Who Are the Members of the Executive Diversity Council?
Members of the Executive Diversity Council come from a wide array of diverse and multi-generational backgrounds. The Council is comprised of corporations, NGO's, nonprofits, academics, and governmental agencies.
Anna Hickner, Ph.D. Candidate, Psychology, George Washington University
Ms. Hickner is a doctoral student at the Center for Professional Psychology at George Washington University (“GWU”), where she serves as a representative on the Faculty Committee, as well as acts as a liaison between GWU and Diversity Spectrum. Anna has conducted extensive research and analysis on a number of subjects for Diversity Spectrum including diversity metrics, ethnic conflict, bullying, sexual harassment, and transgender acceptance. (Full Bio)
This white paper explores the prevalence of implicit racism in our society through use of brain imaging, implicit association testing, and models of social thought construction, and the implications of these findings for our society today and in the future. (White Paper)
About Scholars in Residence
The Diversity Spectrum Scholars in Residence program allows us to share with our viewers the material from leaders in thought and innovation. The white papers from our Scholars in Residence will enable each viewer to be at the cutting-edge of diversity and inclusion knowledge.
Diversity Spectrum Scholars in Residence
Craig B. Clayton, Sr., Founder and CEO, the Sp@rtacus Group
Mr. Clayton specializes in providing organizations with analytical tools that measure the connection between the ROI from managing diversity and the organization's bottom line. Additionally, he serves as the Director and Diversity Strategist of the International Institute for Diversity & Cross-Cultural Management. (Full Bio)
Dr. Paul du Quenoy, Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut
Dr. du Quenoy, a former Fulbright-Hays scholar, specializes in Russian and European History. Additionally, Dr. du Quenoy is a consultant for a number of business enterprises, travel and tourism companies, arts endeavors, and educational institutions. (Full Bio)
Scholarly writing: Dispatches from Beirut, Lebanon
The Arab League has sent a delegation to Lebanon to try to resolve the current crisis that has threatened to plunge the country back into civil war. Sectarian clashes killed more than 50 people in the past week. Dr. du Quenoy shares his weekly journal from the scene. (Dispatches)
Travel to Syria is not the easiest feat. Before I left the US last month, I took the precaution of getting a visa at the Syrian Embassy in Washington, conveniently close to my neighborhood there. They processed my application in 24 hours, and I was assured there would be no difficulty at the border even though I received the visa the day news broke of suspicious North Koreans being photographed on visits to Syrian power installations. The alternative of procuring a Syrian visa in the Middle East is unpleasant. One can simply go out to the border from Beirut, but it is not uncommon for Westerners to have to wait there for 8, 10, or even 15 hours while their application is “processed.” In at least one case I am aware of, an American lady was simply denied entry and told to go away. (Report)
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Virtual Socratic Forum
Socrates -- the Greek philosopher after whom the Diversity Spectrum Socratic Forum is named -- said "The unexamined life is not worth living." (Apology 38a)
He was the inspiration behind how we should reinvent ourselves daily through collaborative and constructive dialogues, discussions and debates, just like the Greek philosophers, scholoars, and artisits in Raphael's paintingThe School of Athens, depicted in the left half of the image above.
The Diversity Spectrum Socratic Forum serves to inspire, inform, and expand the global diversity community by connecting thought leaders through real-time, online collaborative vehicles, such as Telepresence , depicted in the right half of the image above. Participants explore and share ideas about how to harness and leverage the power of diversity and inclusion principles to create/expand markets, achieve global social responsibiity goals, and maximize workplace management.
Every year, Diversity Spectrum publishes scores of blogs, white papers, case studies, handbooks, guidelines, and research and reference materials composed by its fellows, scholars-in-residence, and staff on a wide range of issues, including the following:
Diversity Spectrum’s publications meet the highest standards of scholarship, are accessible to a broad readership, and explore diversity and inclusion management and policy alternatives consistent with the principles of revenue generation, investment return, new markets access, organizational efficiency, accountability, and transparency.
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Anna Hickner, Ph.D. Candidate, Psychology, George Washington University
