Bias Incident Response Team
Who Serves on the Bias Response Team?
Tomiko Jenkins
Acting Co-dean of the Undergraduate College
Xuemei M. Cheng
Dean of Graduate Studies
Cheryl Lynn Horsey
Equal Opportunity Officer
Rodney Matthews
Member of the Staff Association
A.T. Ortiz
Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion, and Community Life
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.