Natalie Gillard
FACTUALITY: A Crash Course on Structural Inequality in America
Wednesday, May 15
3:00 — 4:30 p.m.
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, 2nd Floor
Co-Sponsored by the VP for Strategic Planning & Institutional Diversity,
Dean of Faculty's Office, & Human Resources
During her undergraduate experience, Natalie Gillard found that support for individuals
from diverse backgrounds was rather limited. This ignited her desire to pursue a self-designed
graduate study in Race and Ethnic Relations and numerous professional opportunities.
Natalie has held various inclusion roles over her 12 year career in the field of higher
education, most recently serving as Stevenson University's Assistant Vice President
for Multicultural Experience. She is the creator of FACTUALITY, a facilitated exercise
that explores structural inequality based on national statistics, in America. FACTUALITY
has supported the diversity and inclusion initiatives of Fortune 500 company, Lockheed
Martin, the College Board, Bill Gates Millennium Scholars, and The University of Arizona,
where author and civil rights activist, bell hooks participated. FACTUALITY has reached
over 2500 participants, has been featured in Baltimore Magazine, the Afro American Newspapers, the Boston Voyager, and is listed in the Kellogg Foundation's Racial and Equity Resource Guide.
FACTUALITY is a facilitated dialogue, crash course, and board game, all in one, that simulates real life experiences in America. It is played with a
rich group of diverse characters (in the accompanying graphic) that encounter a series
of fact-based advantages and limitations based on the intersection of their race,
gender, sexual orientation, faith, and class.
THOROUGHLY UNPACKS INTERSECTING AREAS IN UNDER 90 MINUTES
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