Equity experts Precious Green Gunter and Brandon Washington will explain the intersection of race discrimination and hairstyles. You will learn how to avoid illegal and hurtful policies and actions.
What You'll Learn
- What is the history of racial discrimination based on hair?
- What microaggressions are associated with this discrimination?
- How do cultural appropriation and assimilation differ?
- What health impacts and disparities does hair discrimination cause?
- How should policies handle hairstyles?
- What discrimination laws relate to hair? What does the CROWN Act cover?
Training Overview
Stop hair-based racial discrimination at your institution? Discover the hurtful microaggressions and disparities.
People of color have long experienced race and ethnicity discrimination based on their hair textures and styles. Many individuals are subjected to hurtful treatment based on hair throughout their lives, from school policies to workplace microaggressions.
You need to understand the intertwined details of this pervasive form of systemic racism to eradicate it. The CROWN Act legally prevents race-based hair discrimination in a growing number of states and cities.
- What is the history of racial discrimination based on hair?
- What microaggressions are associated with this discrimination?
- How do cultural appropriation and assimilation differ?
- What health impacts and disparities does hair discrimination cause?
- How should policies handle hairstyles?
- What discrimination laws relate to hair? What does the CROWN Act cover?
Who Should Attend?
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Expert Presenter
Precious Green Gunter
- Director of Equity, Ethics, Compliance, and Title IX Coordinator at Florida Gulf Coast University
- Chairs the university’s Title IX and Diversity and Inclusion Committees and assists with programming and training to promote education and awareness throughout the university community
- Adjunct legal and ethics instructor for FGCU’s Lutgert College of Business
- Previously adjunct ethics instructor for Virginia College
- Worked as a staff attorney for Legal Aid of North Carolina for almost five years
- Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional through the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics
- B.S. in Human Resource Management from the University of South Carolina
- J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law
- Admitted to practice law in the state of North Carolina
Brandon Washington
- Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at EverQuote Inc., an online insurance marketplace based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Formerly Associate Vice Chancellor for Equal Opportunity and Compliance at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC)
- Served as the Chief Diversity Officer and Title IX Coordinator at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida
- Spent five years as an investigator, trainer, and mediator with the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
- Licensed attorney in North Carolina
- B.S. in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina
- MBA from Charleston Southern University
- J.D. from Florida A&M College of Law
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Credits
- This program has been approved for 1.0 general recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.
- This program is valid for 1.0 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.
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