Perception Partners

Shantel Palacio is an Education Policy Analyst, DE&I Consultant, and the Founder of Brownsvillain LLC, an organization aimed at combating stereotype threat in low-income communities of color, starting with her own Brownsville Brooklyn.   Palacio has served as an innovative project manager and chief advisor to senior leaders.  She spent nearly 10 years executing both mayoral and…

Jerry Kang is Distinguished Professor of Law, Distinguished Professor of Asian American Studies, and was the inaugural Korea Times – Hankook Ilbo Endowed Chair in Korean American Studies and Law (2010-20). He recently stepped down as UCLA’s Founding Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (2015-20)  after completing a five year mission to “build equity for all.” Professor Kang’s teaching…

Will Snowden is the Director of the Vera Institute of Justice’s New Orleans office. In this role, he continues and strengthens Vera’s existing partnerships with criminal justice actors and community leaders while identifying new collaborative relationships with government entities and community organizations. The collaborations will focus on improving criminal justice systems in the South. Prior…

Anurima Bhargava the President of Anthem of Us, a strategic advisory firm promoting dignity and justice in the building of our schools, workplaces and communities.  She conducts investigations of harassment and discrimination, assesses institutional culture and climate, and makes policy and practice recommendations. From 2010-2016, Anurima led federal civil rights enforcement in schools and institutions…

As a former federal defender, Yasmin Cader has tried more than thirty criminal cases to resolution before juries and judges in state and federal courts in Los Angeles, New York and Washington D.C.  At the Offices of the Federal Public Defender in the Southern District of New York and Los Angeles, Yasmin represented witnesses and…

Sheila R. Foster is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy at Georgetown. She holds a joint appointment with the Georgetown Law School and the McCourt Public Policy School.  Prior to joining Georgetown, she was a University Professor and the Albert A. Walsh Professor of Real Estate, Land Use and Property Law…

Devon Carbado is the Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and the former Associate Vice Chancellor of BruinX for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. He teaches Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, and Criminal Adjudication. He has won numerous teaching awards, including being elected Professor of the Year by the UCLA School of…

she / her / hers Connect with Michelle on Twitter and LinkedIn. DePass began her career as a community organizer in New York and went onto leadership positions in philanthropy, government, academia and the nonprofit sector. Over three decades, she has distinguished herself as a thought leader at the intersections of social and economic justice,…

Aya Taveras recently left her full-time role as the Director of Story and Representation at Perception Institute, but she remains a collaborating partner. Aya develops new program content to support learning and development and facilitates mind science workshops on implicit bias, identity anxiety, and stereotype threat. She has worked in the public and private sectors with domestic…