Our headliner event for 2017-2018, “What would we DO?” was a great success! We met at the Full Frame theater at American Tobacco Campus. We had about 60 people who watched skits, discussed them, and then discussed how to change them. One sketch had an employee being loudly upset when a colleague with a gender-neutral name turns out to be female. Another had a single dad being told that he would have to work some nights, and he would have to find a (female) relative to watch his child.
Gender-surprise skit after the surprise – note the unhappy body language of the character on the far end of the table. Two of the seated characters did not realize that the helper character was female. One was just mildly surprised, but the other was actively belligerent. After the reset, one of the other male employees challenged the angry one in the moment, and the dialogue changed considerably.Pictured: DeAnna Hall, with microphone. After each skit, the audience had the opportunity to ask questions and suggest variations on the skit for resetting.Gender-surprise skit before the surprise – these employees are discussing a problem, and who they should bring in to fix it.Dr. Ben Reese, head of Duke’s Office of Institutional EquityDiversifyIT co-chairs Jason Gordon (back), and Bryn Smith (front). Martay Smith (right) is our HR sponsor.Tracy Futhey, chief information officer and VP of Information technology.Bryn Smith, co-chair of DiversifyIT
