UnDisciplined: Does DEI training work?

By Matthew LaPlante

Published January 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM MST

"Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities" by Nilanjana Dasgupta

There’s a good chance that, over the past decade or so, you’ve attended diversity, equity, and inclusion training. And there’s also a good chance that it actually didn’t help change the culture at your organization. Social psychologist Nilanjana Dasgupta says our bottom-up approach to DEI training is likely ineffective, but there are simple, straight-forward and research-based steps that actually work to create more equitable institutions.

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Matthew LaPlante

Matthew LaPlante has reported on ritual infanticide in Northern Africa, insurgent warfare in the Middle East, the legacy of genocide in Southeast Asia, and gang violence in Central America. But a few years back, something occurred to him: Maybe the news doesn't have to be so brutally depressing all the time. These days, he balances his continuing work on more heartbreaking subjects with his work on UnDisciplined — Utah Public Radio's weekly program on science and discovery.

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