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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[ Bowen ] Well i mean, it's, you know, and I say this to people, I never thought 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}I would work in a multicultural center. I mean, I'm a gay, biracial
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}kid from Kansas. I probably had it stamped on the back of my head, but of course you can't see the back of your head, so 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}I had no idea. You know know I mean, like. Plus I used to wear my hair longer, so you wouldn't be able to
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}see that anyway. But uh. Um
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}I don't know. Everything that I do is connected to
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}multiculturalism. And I say that because I think multiculturalism is connected to
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}everything, you know. One of the things I always start when I standing in front of a classroom
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}for the first time, or when I can see that look in people's eyes that are like, why does this apply to me?
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And I say: I am multicultural. When you say the word
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}multicultural, you're talking about me because I represent identity categories that
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}we typically call multicultural, and
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}some of those identities are multicultural and some of them are not like being male
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}um and able-bodied. So everyone is multicultural
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}you may not see that, but I believe that you are.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}and because of that, I believe that we are all invited to this dialog,
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}we all have to join it in our own ways. Um and
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}so because of that I um, I just believe
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}that when you truly practice multiculturalism--I wrote a piece
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}on this, again, just wrote a piece, that was put in one of my professor's
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}textbooks on advocacy as love action, which I think is a paraphrase 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}from, the Call and Response video, um, something West. 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}Do you know know I'm talking about? [ interviewer ] I-I'm sorry.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[   Bowen   ] He does human trafficking work, and he-- [ interviewer ] oh, um [ Bowen ] It's not
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}Kanye West, it's something West, anyway
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}um, but for me, advocacy is my love of work for others.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And that's it. And so for me that's
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}connected to that when I came out to my aunt at 17
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}uh she told me, she just sat cried with me. But she
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}made it be known to me that there was nothing so wrong with me 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}that I didn't deserved to be loved. And you know one thing
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}I I say a lot to people, when we're talking is, 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}when--and again I'm sorry for cussing on this, I've done it a few times--
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[   interviewer   ] totally fine [ Bowen ] When you're told that you're shit
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}from an early age, and you're told it again and again and again and again
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}odds are, you're gonna turn out to be shit. Because you've embraced this belief
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}that you don't matter or you're not worthy, so helping people uncover that they're absolutely
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}not that there's good stuff under there is one of the
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}reasons I love counseling. It's one of the reasons I love wellness coaching. It's one of the reasons that I uh 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}really created the Open Doors program to say, hey, this is what this
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}is, these are points of disconnection in which you keep each other at arms length
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}as opposed to really encountering people. And I don't know, I've gotten more sappy, and I say as I get older
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}I know, like I'm 25 now, and if I look at this back when I'm 75, I'll be like woah, he was super young like
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}what were you saying! But um I quote the Dali Lama a lot and I say
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}you can love anyone if you know their story. And I truly believe that um
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}you may not like them most days, you may disagree with their choices, but you can
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}understand how they got to that point. And my professor tells this 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}great story of how--she does pro bono work. Um and she
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}does psychological assessments with people. So she was doing a MMPI which is the Minnesota Multiphasic
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}Personality Inventory, um, on this child. And it takes about an hour
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}and a half to complete. He got it done in 10 minutes and turned it in.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And it's a bubble scantron sheet, so she's looking at it, she just like, this doesn't make sense, she doesn't make sense. And she turns it
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}to the side, and he's bubbled in, 'Fuck You.'
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And she said she paused, and she said, you know I thought I would be angry.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}I thought I would be ticked because here I donated four hours of my time to come in and do this for this person but I stepped back and
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}and thought, wow he doesn't even know me. He doesn't, I'm just another person, another adult in his life.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}What has happened to him at this point, up until now for him to
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}take the time to bubble in that response and hand it to me.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And she's like, it was still annoying, like still
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}driven like an hour to do this, but I was able to step back from my own ego and my own place and say
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}well what's going on with this person, and can I do anything? And so that story was really profound for me because it
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}helps me kinda check myself. Helps me say you're really irritated, why? I mean
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}really, you only came to give this person your time, they didn't agree what they were gonna do with it
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}so if you give your time to someone, you don't get to be angry about how they use 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}that time. [ Interviewer ] So you mentioned Open Doors, can you um
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}talk about the Open Doors program and sorta how that came into development?
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[ Bowen ] Well I was the Bias Assessment GAA and it was my job--again, never thought I would do multicultural
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}work--stepped in on the first day, and they're like well here's all these events that happen on campus.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}People who have been harassed, you know with someone banging on their door like five night
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}in a row calling them racial epithet, um or someone being beaten up in an alley because they looked transgender
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}or too femme. Um, I would just read these and I was just shocked, and we had
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}this one student come in who, um, and again talking about the power of words,
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}he was an African-American male, came in, and was just crying
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}like just crying. And he worked with us, and so I sat him down and I said, what's going on?
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}'Cause you're not normally this upset. You're usually very happy. What's going on?
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}He said, well I have this class in this building, and I go there two times a week.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And I use the restroom, and someone has
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}written in magic marker in letters this big, the n-word, on the side of the stall.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And I told my professor, and I told the
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}maintenance staff, and it's been up for two weeks.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And luckily, in my position, I was able to call my supervisor who was then able to call the building manager and they got it removed within three hours or something like that.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}But the thing was, he clearly knew that it was not directed at him. You know so many people say
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}oh, well it must be someone direct ---something directed directly at you. But his question was, is there just so
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}much hate for people like me, that something like this gets written and not only that
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}but nothing's done about it. And so I just, I was encountering a lot of sadness.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}Um and sadness, I don't believe is an inherently bad thing, but if we don't do something about it leads to more sadness. 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}Um so I said, well, I think I can do something. I mean it may not be perfect, but so
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}I picked this idea for an eight hour, two-day training called, um anti-bias training.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And I put together a paper manuscript that was like 300 pages of like different--I,I
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}modeled it off the Safe Zones program, and I did that because I've always felt very fortunate to be gay and that there are these
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}programs that are in place for our community to help us feel valued and like we matter. But so many
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}other historically marginalized populations don't get that. And I said, well that's not right, like why
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}should we get something that other people don't? Like why aren't we learning from this and helping other people? SO
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}I pitched it. And I went around to like different directors and Student Life and I said, well bias is bad, right?
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}It's really hard to argue with that one! [   interviewer   ] right! [ Bowen ] And I totally took it from my advisor who used to go around and
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}say suicide's really sad, right--'cause she designed the suicide gatekeeper training--
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}what if we could do something about it, what if there were an 8-hour, 4-hour structured
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}presentation, workshop, something to address it? Would this be something your office would support?
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And so I got buy-in from like 10 different offices. And so, I took that to my
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}director, and I said there are 10 offices, I'm sure there are more, but these are the 10 I went to, who think this might be
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}a good idea. Can I do something with this. And she said, sure. And it was totally like a side project, you know, here I was doing clinical internship,
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}Master's program, and doing these other responsibilities, but I put something together. And it was rough the first
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}first couple times, but it really focused on giving people these illustrations of what bias looked 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}like in really meaningful ways. Because, we're smart, thinking people. I mean, the average incoming freshman at OSU has a 29 ACT
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}they're not by any stretch of the imagination uninformed or illiterate
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}for that matter. Um. 
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