Bias Incident Response Team

Who Serves on the Bias Response Team?

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Karlene Burrell-McRae

Dean of the Undergraduate College

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Xuemei M. Cheng

Dean of Graduate Studies

Cheryl Horsey

Cheryl Lynn Horsey

Equal Opportunity Officer

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Tomiko Jenkins

Dean of Student Life

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Rodney Matthews

Member of the Staff Association

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A.T. Ortiz

Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion, and Community Life

Janet Shapiro

Janet Shapiro

Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research

Contact Us!

Contact the team at biasresponse@brynmawr.edu.

The Role of the Bias Response Team

  • To help to establish the facts and the nature of a reported incident.
  • To ensure that personal support is available to the targeted individual(s) and/or group(s).
  • To assist in directing all parties involved to available community resources and proper channels for reporting and action.
  • To assist in mediating communication between the individual(s) reporting the incident and the individual(s) responsible for it.
  • To maintain ongoing and follow-up communication with involved parties to address the concerns and needs of all parties involved.

The Bias Response Team will Track Incidents

  • To assess the potential impact of incidents on the community.
  • To gauge emerging patterns and climate of the College.
  • To inform community educational and training initiatives such as teach-ins, solidarity programs, campus speakers, and bias awareness programming.