Diversity Week 2014 Opening Celebration
The Connecticut Judicial Branch Celebrates Diversity Week with a variety of sessions on the theme, Culture Matters. Throughout the week of October 20-24th, trainings were available for Branch personnel throughout the state. Some of the topics covered at the opening day breakout sessions at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford included Gender, Culture and Diversity; Deaf Culture; Understanding Implicit Bias; Working with Gender and Sexual Minorities and Islam and Muslims.
The Diversity Week Opening Celebration was punctuated by Keynote Speaker Professor Dan M. Kahan, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale University.

  • Supreme Court Associate Justice Richard A. Robinson welcomes Diversity Week participants.
  • Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers gives opening remarks.
  • Yale Professor Dan M. Kahan speaks of cultural cognition to a roomful of Judicial Branch personnel.
  • Yale Professor Dan M. Kahan speaks while an interpreter signs the lecture.
  • Judicial Branch personnel listen to Yale Professor Dan M. Kahan during the Diversity Week Opening Celebration<br>at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.
  • Judicial Branch personnel
  • Yale Professor of Law and Psychology Dan M. Kahan (left) and Associate Supreme Court Justice Richard A. Robinson<br>at the opening ceremonies of the Judicial Branch Diversity Week.
  • Yale Professor Dan M. Kahan discusses his lecture with two Judicial Branch employees.
  • Judicial Marshals attend the Diversity Week Opening Celebration.
  • Judicial Branch personnel during a break at the Diversity Week Opening Celebration.
  • Members of the Diversity Week Committee (L to R:) Associate Supreme Court Justice Richard A. Robinson, Chair,<br>Shawna Woodard, Paul Bourdoulous, Stephen Ment and Troy Brown.
  • Executive Director of Superior Court Operations and Executive Secretary of the Judicial Branch Joseph D. D’Alesio<br>and Chief Judicial Marshal Ines Nieves.
  • Robin P. McHaelen, Founder and Executive Director of True Colors, Inc. lectures on <em>Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Pan and Trans:<br>Working with Gender and Sexual Minorities.</em>
  • Judicial Branch personnel attending one of the Breakout Sessions during the Diversity Week Opening Celebration.
  • Robin P. McHaelen, Founder and Executive Director of True Colors, answers questions following her lecture.
  • William Rivera, Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs and Immigration Practice, CT Department of<br>Children and Families, discusses the difficulties of translating languages.
  • Aida Mansoor, President of the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut, during her presentation on <em>Islam and Muslims.</em>
  • Aida Mansoor, President of the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut, during her presentation on <em>Islam and Muslims.</em>
  • Dr. Nancy A. Naples, Director of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at the<br>University of Connecticut speaks about <em>Gender, Culture and Diversity.</em>
  • Sandra Inzinga, Director, Adult Vocational Services, American School for the Deaf, lectures on <em>Deaf Culture.</em>
  • Linda J. Cimino, Judicial Branch Director of the Office of Victim Services introduces Associate Supreme Court Justice Richard A. Robinson and Troy Brown, Judicial Branch Training Academy Supervisor, for their lecture on <em>Understanding Implicit Bias.</em>
  • Troy Brown, Judicial Branch Training Academy Supervisor (left) and Associate Supreme Court Justice<br>Richard A. Robinson during their lecture on <em>Understanding Implicit Bias.</em>
  • The Hon. Patrick L. Carroll III, Chief Court Administrator of the Judicial Branch, delivers closing remarks<br>at the Diversity Week Opening Celebration.

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