Hear My Story on Intersectionality Pre-Panel Questionnaire

Event: Kellogg Mosaic Week: Hear My Story: Intersectionality

When: April 22, 5p-6p

Where: Wieboldt Hall, Room 540

BMA Presents - Hear My Story: Intersectionality

Thank you for agreeing to participate in BMAÔÇÖs Hear My Story: Intersectionality panel for KelloggÔÇÖs Mosaic Week. The goal of Mosaic week at Kellogg is to provide ÔÇ£opportunities to learn about a wide range of cultures, identities and perspectives.ÔÇØ Hear My Story: Intersectionality is no different. The program is meant to highlight the experiences of individuals that might differ from the majority here at Kellogg and beyond. The unique perspectives and the intersectionality of identity provide context to collectively make us all better students, classmates, leaders and people.

Please answer the following prompts to the level thatÔÇÖs most comfortable to you. These prompts will serve two purposes: 1. As a tool to prompt certain experiences and thoughts you may have around your identity and how your environment does or does not interact with it and 2. as context for our moderator, Professor Pearce, to control the tempo of the forum.

DESCRIBE YOUR INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITY

All of us are complex individuals who have multiple identities we bring with us into the work place. Some are more obvious than others. Many might be assumed, while others require knowing someone a little more to know and understand. To the level in which you feel comfortable, tell us a little more about yourself and some of those identities you may prescribe to that effect how you show up in the work place. *

PARTS OF YOU UNSEEN/UNRECOGNIZED

In professional spaces (i.e. work and school), provide an example when you felt only part of your identity was being recognized while other parts were either being dismissed or you consciously chose to curtail in order to avoid potentially uncomfortable or negative interactions?

MICRO-AGGRESSIONS

In professional spaces (i.e. work and school), when part of you is under attack, how do you engage? How do you decide when and in what manner to react? Do you feel safe enough to react at all?

How do you react when it's another marginalized or vulnerable group under attack. How do you approach the situation, and do you think it's your responsibility to speak up?

SELF-MONITORING

In professional spaces (i.e. work and school), how does the feeling of constant self-monitoring and wondering whether ALL of you is welcomed effect your performance (ie productivity, confidence, anxiety, etc)?

IMMIGRATION & CULTURAL INTERSECTIONALITY

For those who either immigrated to the US or are the 1st generation in their family born in the states, discuss the cultural intersectionality of your American experience coupled with your identity to your home or familial country. How have corporate environments responded to you when discussing conflicts between decisions being made and your culture of origin? Also, discuss 'code switching' and the role it plays in your corporate environments.