Making change, together

In her TEDx Talk, Kelly Terbasket invites you to draw a tree. Audience members sketch the first tree they imagine as Terbasket waits on stage at the 2022 event. “After you’ve drawn your tree, I’d like you to notice—do you have roots on your tree?” she asks.

A couple of people in the audience raise their hands, but most do not. Terbasket says this is a common occurrence. Then she goes deeper with the metaphor. “We don’t see the roots, so we don’t think about them,” she says. “Just like the roots, implicit bias runs deep but we don’t think about it. It’s invisible to us but it has so much power.”

So begins Terbasket’s TEDx Talk, “Recognizing our Implicit Bias Towards Indigenous Peoples.”