TEDx Portland 2019 —Paloma Medina — How Equity Tops Diversity as a Core Human Need

Barbara Castleton, M.A.
5 min readApr 28, 2019

Awkward silence greeted the first few minutes of Paloma Medina’s talk at the Keller Auditorium in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, April 27, 2019. She had just told the audience of this uber hip, liberal town that 99.9ish% of them had “some level of ethno-centrism or some other kind of unconscious prejudice towards people who are different than us.”

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Barbara Castleton, M.A.

Writer, teacher, seasonal ex-pat— my life is both an intentional and serendipitous circumstance. Mottos — “Buy the ticket, and go!” “Offer help where you can.”