A Conversation with Dr. Sarah Stearns

Into Liberation: A podcast about transformative change, inclusion, and building a more just and compassionate world

Longtime VISIONS consultant and psychologist Dr. Sarah Stearns shares her story, starting with her rural Connecticut upbringing to becoming a founding consultant with VISIONS Inc. In addition to talking about her personal and professional trajectory, she shares how her own experiences with discrimination fueled her commitment to multicultural work and systemic change.

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Into Liberation: A podcast about transformative change, equity, and liberation is a production of VISIONS, Inc, a non-profit that offers effective tools that help individuals and organizations communicate and forge connections across differences that drive collective success.

Since 1984, we’ve offered research-based, time-tested approaches to cross-cultural learning that invite participants to engage in equity and inclusion work, starting at the personal and interpersonal levels and expanding to include changes toward institutional and cultural levels.
VISIONS offers actionable approaches that empower people to identify actions, explore their motivations, and effectively move through complex situations with respect and humanity for others and their differences.
Any opinions and views expressed by the speakers are their own and do not reflect the positions of VISIONS, Inc.

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Fejezetek

1. Meet Dr. Sarah Stearns (00:00:00)

2. Growing Up with Limited Diversity (00:08:46)

3. College Years and Political Awakening (00:18:57)

4. First Experiences with Homophobia (00:31:15)

5. Early Days at Visions Inc. (00:42:17)

6. How Clinical Practice Enriched DEI Work (00:54:57)

7. Creating the World We Want (01:07:36)