My Whole Self: A Film Viewing and Discussion

This session is focused on navigating ways to identify the gaps in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and address them as an ally.

My Whole Self

A documentary film about microaggressions and gender featuring six unique voices from the Pacific Northwest at various intersections of age, race, gender, ethnicity, and social class. My Whole Self shows how friendship and dialogue, humor and intelligence, allow women to succeed despite the implicit bias against them even in a "socially progressive" place like Portland, Oregon.

Barbara J. Diamond (she/her) is the founder of Diamond Law Training, an anti-bias trainer and consultant, and a documentary filmmaker. She also brings over 30 years of experience from her practice as a labor, employment, and civil rights lawyer. Barbara is passionate about Implicit Bias Theory and helping organizations reduce the impact of unconscious bias. Her training and consultant clients include Portland State University, UA 290, and the Washington Education Association. 

Nassim Abdi, Ph.D. is the award-winning founder of StoryBolt, a corporate inclusion training company with a radically innovative and science-backed approach to inspiring empathy and building more inclusive workspaces. An educator, actor, storyteller, and inclusion evangelist, Nassim has adapted her decades of experience into training businesses how to model empathetic leadership and build inclusive workplace environments. Her novel active learning Mpathi™ methodology is trusted by Google Cloud, Brad's Deals, and many more.

Soudeh Mansourian started her journey at United Airlines in 2014 and worked in different organizations such as Marketing and Loyalty, Customer Experience, Tech Ops, and Customer Strategy and Innovation. She is the President of uIMPACT, which is an employee-run business resource groups at United that amplifies voices of United’s female employees with the mission of “Empowering Women for Positive Change.”  Soudeh believes that building a diverse United is not only beneficial to employees and customers, but also a key factor that can unlock new potential for success in this competitive landscape.

Storybolt uses documentary storytelling to facilitate attitude-changing dialogues around topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Using the medium of documentary film and discussion with the filmmakers and/or subjects of the film, Storybolt works with organizations to bring out effective and sustainable positive cultural shifts relating to a diverse range of topics including women and leadership, LGBTQ2+, unconscious bias, mental health, and well-being.