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In this podcast episode, Professor Aziza Jones of the Wisconsin School of Business talks about a paper she co-authored with Broderick Turner and Kalinda Ukunwa about how marketing interventions can be used to decrease school segregation. Their research shows that providing information to parents that counters prior beliefs can increase the likelihood that they will send their children to more racially diverse schools. 
Paper: Marketing Toward the Desegregation of Schools

For this episode of the podcast, we hear from Kendall Holley, Ben Douglas, and Michelle Marji about work they have been doing to build resources and communities around antiracism here at UW-Madison and beyond. Holley, Douglas, and Marji are all graduate students here at the UW. They talked with our Institute Chair and podcast host Dr. Angela Byars-Winston about what they’ve done so far and how they are trying to keep the momentum behind this work going.
In the interview, they reference the Antiracist Academic Resources in Psychology document and the Antiracism Learning and Action in Neuroscience organization on the UW-Madison campus. 
 
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In this episode IDS Chair Angela Byars-Winston talks to Jirs Meuris about his research on the sorts of policies and practices that make a difference for organizations that want to promote diversity. Meuris is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Human Resources Department at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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People who are looking for an apartment or other rental housing often start their search online, looking at websites like Craigslist to find a place to live. In this episode, we hear from sociologist Max Besbris about two studies he did with colleagues from Washington University and Michigan State. The studies look at how the content of rental listings on websites like Craigslist might steer potential renters towards some neighborhoods and away from others in ways that break down by race and potentially maintain existing patterns of residential segregation. 
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Professor Lillie Williamson studies medical mistrust, particularly mistrust in the U.S. context between Black Americans and the medical community. In this episode, Dr. Williamson talks with Angela Byars-Winston about how mistrust is more than just a historical phenomenon, but can stem from the personal encounters with discrimination, a loved one's negative experiences, and the broader systems a person interacts with. 
Lillie Williamson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 
Read more about her work on an NSF-funded project that aims to study how Black communities in Wisconsin respond to science and medical communication and messaging. 

In this episode, we hear from Mica Estrada about kindness, how there's more to it than just being polite or courteous, and how incorporating kindness into institutional practices can help to diversify STEMM fields.
Dr. Estrada is a Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging and Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion and Outreach in the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. 
Mica would like to amend her statement regarding the history of exploitation and racism in America to include the genocide against Native people. She sincerely apologizes for the omission in her statements.
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