DEI Terminology

2. Inclination or preference that interferes with impartial judgment
4. Everyday verbal, physical, and symbolic insults and slights, whether intentional or unintentional
6. Unbiased consideration for the rights, values, beliefs, and property of other people
9. Means resources are provided so that all individuals have equal access
10. Ability to imagine what something might feel like for someone who experiences the world in a different way than you do
12. Means that resources are distributed based on the tailored needs of a specific audience
13. Act or practice of behaviors and social norms that ensure people feel welcome

1. Systemic favoring, enriching, valuing, validating and including of certain social identities over others
3. Assumptions we make about people on the basis of the social groups to which they belong
5. Any action that aims to support or influence a cause, particularly on behalf of the most vulnerable in our society
7. Practice or quality of creating a community comprising people of different ages, cultural backgrounds, geographies, physical abilities and disabilities, religions, sexes, gender identities, sexual orientations, etc.
8. Prejudiced treatment of a person on the basis of the social groups to which they belong, and stereotypes about those groups
11. Unfavorable belief formed without basis. It is a prejudgment or unjustifiable attitude of one individual or group toward another
14. Learned and shared values, beliefs, languages, and customs of a social group