Here's a question. When was the last time you considered your unconscious biases?

Have you ever? It's okay if not, most of us haven't, but here's something interesting to note.

Whether we take the time to examine them or not,

they do affect us every single day. Maybe in small ways getting passed over for a promotion

being spoken down to by your peers or in the case of my guest today getting your work overlooked.

I was surprised.

I was disheartened to be honest.

It made me feel discouraged.

Um, simultaneous, you know, while I was simultaneously placing pieces in like high

profile publications, it made me feel discouraged because it made me feel like, I guess the way to succeed is to conceal who I am.

Or maybe you've been the perpetrator, choosing to cross the street at night when you see a

person of color coming towards you or subconsciously discounting what a female

colleague has to say. No matter how it affects you, it does affect you. And it can cause huge problems

in your life and in larger society. That's why for the next two episodes we're going to talk

about how to end it and the answer well you already know the answer, because this is tiny leaps. Big changes. Oh, yeah. My guest today is Jessica Nordel.

Jessica Nordel is a science writer, award-winning author, and speaker for blending rigorous science with compassionate humanity.

Her first book The End of Bias a Beginning won the Nautilus Award and was shortlisted for the Columbia Journalism

slash Lucas Prize for Excellence in Non Fiction.

The New York Public Library Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the National Association of Science Writers

Book Prize.

The End of Bias was also named a Best Book of the Year by the World Economic Forum, Greater

Good, the AARP and Inc magazine, and is currently being used by organizations from newsrooms to NBA teams to health care

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