Connecting Conversations Series - What is implicit bias and how does it impact our work?

Time: 7 pm. CT

Description: This conversation will explore implicit and explicit bias, and how it impacts our work as SLPs and audiologists. Through personal reflection, group discussion, and creative activities, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how bias influences the way we relate to others and show up in the world. 

Purpose: Participants will walk away with a greater sense of cultural responsivity, and a deeper understanding of how biases can influence the way they experience the world and do their work.

Facilitators: David Frazier and Amina Dreessen

David Frazier II MEd, BS, HIS, COHC

I am a budding epistemologist, Hearing Scientist, and full-time doctoral student within Liberty University’s PhD program in the school of Health Sciences. My strongest quality is passion, and it is a fire that will not wither. I aspire to improve legislation, fair access, and treatment for the millions of individuals in Illinois with hearing and communication challenges. I serve as secretary/treasurer with the Illinois Hearing society and with Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission, I advocate for the people directly needing a voice at the decision table. Additionally, I serve on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and the Student Involvement Committee within the Illinois Speech and Hearing Association. My career passion is to educate and embody the American creed that our diversity is our nation’s greatest strength.

Amina Dreessen, M.S., CF-SLP

Amina (she/they) is a recent graduate of the Rush University Speech Language Pathology program who completed her undergraduate degree at Northwestern University with a focus on power structures and social justice.  Amina is currently completing her clinical fellowship year working with adolescents and adults at SpeechIRL, and with children at The Loop Speech. Amina takes an emergent strategy approach to her life and work, with a focus on mindfulness and transformative justice. 

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