Leadership Conference 2019
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSION I
10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Lead with Cultural Intelligence
and Resist Unconscious Bias
Karen Wilkins-Mickey, Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Alaska Airlines
Leading Diversity & Inclusion efforts, strategy, and initiatives at Alaska Air Group is Karen Wilkins-Mickey. As Director for almost three years she has already created impact and is truly an inspiration to her teammates.
Her experience in the field spans more than 15 years. Karen enjoys being in a position and industry where she can see the output of her work in not only the employees but also the guests. She believes inclusion is cultivated from the inside out.
Karen resides with her beautiful and supportive family in Seattle, Washington. They enjoy spending time together and traveling, which makes working for AAG a perfect fit!
Dr. Kristin Pauker, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Director, ISP lab
Dr. Pauker’s research examines how motivation, social context, and culturally-shaped theories about race impact intergroup bias. Her scholarship has appeared in high-impact journals including Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Developmental Psychology, among others, and has been covered by the New York Times and Time Magazine. Her recent work, which has been supported by extramural grants from NIH and NSF, examines the way implicit bias is perpetuated through culture (e.g., media) via patterns of interactions and how diversity impacts the emergence of gender and racial bias in development. She aims to apply insights from her research toward creating interventions and supporting programs that foster inclusion and harness the value of diversity.
Justin Levinson, Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Professor Justin Levinson is a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law. He is a leader in the field of implicit bias and the law and an expert in psychological decision-making in the legal system. His scholarship has appeared in the NYU Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, and Duke Law Journal, among others, and has been cited by the United States Supreme Court. Professor Levinson previously practiced corporate law in Silicon Valley. He regularly teaches business law, entrepreneurship, criminal law, and law and psychology courses, and has offered a seminar on implicit bias and the law.
Moderator: Stuart Coleman, Hawaiʻi Coordinator, Surfrider Foundation
Stuart Holmes Coleman is a writer, speaker and environmental advocate. Coleman is the award-winning author of three books (Eddie Would Go; Fierce Heart; & Eddie Aikau: Hawaiian Hero) and more than 60 published articles. Coleman has written about Hawaiian culture, environmental issues, transformational leadership and sustainable development, and he has delivered keynote talks at the Smithsonian, the East-West Center, the United Nations Development Program (Costa Rica), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Beijing, China), the Geoprofessional Business Association and many other conferences. As the Hawaiʻi Manager of the Surfrider Foundation, he has helped pass landmark laws to reduce plastic pollution, create smoke-free beaches & parks, protect water quality and preserve fragile coastal areas. He was recently selected as an Omidyar Fellow.
