- What were your reflections from the video?
My understanding of the video was, becoming conscious of our unconscious bias. How you can make the consious desision to reflect and identify your own bias and what effects it has on you and other people.
- In what ways have you examined your implicit biases before coming to Turing?
I try hard to not be a biased person and try to see the world for what it is, and my opinions about things that dont directly relate to me are not warranted. That being said, I'm human and somethings are very ingrained in our pyche and one of them is creating bias. Anytime I see someone with an American flag or saying they like country music or anything related to American patriotism or country aesthetics, I immediately assume they are a biggot and probably low educated. Which is not fair, just be cause they appreciate their country or enjoy a type of aesthetic shouldnt mean they are an uneducated biggot.
- What kind of software do you imagine building in the future? How will understanding biases (or avoiding understanding biases) impact your products?
I'd like to see myself working in AI software development. One thing I can see important while working to create "true AI" is how not to embed bias in the software. If we start writting in a bias to the software, we are creating an agenda. And technology should have agendas or bias or any form of polotics.
#Second Reflect
“All of us live complex lives that require a great deal of juggling for survival,” Carty and Mohanty said in an email. “What that means is that we are actually living at the intersections of overlapping systems of privilege and oppression.”
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When you consider the way you move through the world, what elements of your identity are you most aware of on a daily basis? My biggest element of my identity is my ethnicity. Along with being a woman. Being a woman of color isnt my a major player on who I am to myself, but I do feel like its a big identifier to others in the world.
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What strengths does your identity give you? How will you utilize those at Turing? I have lived a very underestimated life. Not in a sad way. Growing up I was always underestimated by adult figures in my life, sometimes even my parents, always by men though. As I've gotten older, I've used all the people who doubted me as motivation. Not like I need to prove them all wrong, at the end of the day their opinions are theirs and I shouldnt let their words diminish my selfworth. But I use their words and opinions about me as motivation because I refuse to let someone else have the last word in a conversation about me. So I plan to Excel in Turing.
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How do you think you could value the identies of those around you to bring out their strengths at Turing? Has there been a time where you were able to advocate or include people around you? It's important to bring up the people in your community, an overall happy environment usually means well for you. I would like get to know the people in my cohort more, so I can genuinely understand and value their personal identifiers. But I feel like a good start is finding something you also identify with and start to build a relationship from there!
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How will your strengths impact you as a teammate? What will you bring to your cohort? I like to see myself as a pretty friendly person, I like to be able to lighten the mood in times of need. Just being able to keep conversations going and making people feel more at ease and comfortable with the new life change and setting that is Turing. It can be stressful and maybe scary for some, so in times like that I like to be the person who can keep the energy light!