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Table 3.2

Interviewee Profile — First Set Interviews

Implicit Bias Session Interviewees 1

Gender First Interviews
African Multi-Racial/
White
American Unidentified

Male 6 3 2 1

Female 9 4 4 1

Interviews 15 5 6 2

Table 3.2 shows a profile of the participants and facilitators who volunteered to discuss

their dialogue experience.

In the brief time I had before the CC sessions started, I did not know at first who the

facilitators were so I walked around and made quick table introductions to the attendees seated and

asked for prospective interview volunteers with a two-sided, written description about me and my

dissertation research. The description also included the promise of confidentiality and a request

that individuals contact me, using email and phone contact information, to find out more about the

research interviews and how they could participate in the data-gathering phase of the research.

Prior to each interview, the volunteer received my business card and survey(s), which they

filled out and returned to me at the session or scanned and emailed (one person faxed to ITT). I

had participants volunteered from each one of the three active dialogues for individual interviews

that had ranged from about 45 to 90 minutes average each (gauged by time length of answers).

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