I called this keynote talk for the Michigan Academic Advising Association “Putting up the guardrails” to share how we can’t “eliminate” implicit biases. Our brains are literally hardwired to create associations based on what we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste in this world.

But, we can put up guardrails to curb the effect of negative implicit biases, those patterns our brains have picked up in the environments around us that tell us marginalized people should be marginalized.