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Patricia Kinney, ’02, assistant dean of diversity and inclusion at IU McKinney, wrote about her approach to doing work centered around diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging, also known as DEIAB. The column appears in the Indiana Lawyer.

Dean Kinney calls DEIAB “’heart work’ because it starts with the individual and is an ongoing part of personal and professional development,” she writes in the piece. “This rarely happens after attending one training session or reading one article (including this one). It is much like working on a new skill such as learning a new language or adding a new habit such as incorporating an exercise regimen.”

Dean Kinney encourages people doing this work to take a tip from the Apple TV+ show “Ted Lasso” and “be curious, not judgmental.” “We all show up at different points on this journey,” she writes. “If we take a moment to pause and remember we are not striving for perfection, we may find ourselves open to observing things in a new way and give ourselves and others the grace and space to learn.”