Emily Wright
Certified Life Coach at It'll be alwright®
Vancouver, Canada
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Speaker, writer, and specialist in the psychology of bias and discrimination, Emily Wright is a Certified Life Coach who has aided in the establishment and growth of multiple small businesses, and figureheads their own business: It’ll be alwright®.
Emily offers customizable workshops and seminars, and individual and group coaching. Their signature sessions focus on mitigating bias and cultivating digital wellness, honing in on how algorithms and content impact our perspectives and emotions. Mental and emotional wellbeing is a key theme to all of Emily’s services as they recognise that we can combat negative repercussions of bias by improving clarity of headspace and thus decision-making. These levels of self-reflection are also key to the internal decolonization process, and It’ll be alwright® offers programs that facilitate the deconstruction of limiting beliefs and negative self-talk.
Emily has written multiple books, including 'Mind Bites', which presents simple techniques to reprogram the mind, and 'The 100 Days of Colour: Celebrating Frequetic Beauty', which explores the relationship between subconscious and algorithmic bias. The research behind ‘The 100 Days of Colour’ is crucial to the conversation of ethics, psychology, and technology. In this experiment Emily monitored the Spotify program to see how recommendations changed with input, and consequently discovered many layers to the interaction between algorithms and psychology which impact our everyday lives.
Emily offers unique insight on the intersection of Humanity and Technology, Psychology and Ethics, and how it relates to our evolution as a conscious species.
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The Digital Wellness Seminar: How NOT to Get Manipulated through Online Content
Humans are emotional beings which is a strength that has kept our communities together through thick and thin. However, this strength can also be manipulated into a danger, and that includes through online content.
We have seen over recent years how carefully crafted content can steer the perspectives and attitudes of nations, creating division or unity depending on the agenda. Emotions are key to this steering, and in this session I demonstrate how content can target our feelings to warp our perspectives and decisions. I provide tools for spotting and addressing bias online, offline, and inside your mind, and provide terminology that supports effective communication around the topic.
The 100 Days of Colour: Unearthing Algorithmic Bias in Music Streaming
In a time where music streaming services are transforming how we access and relate to music, how can we ensure that all artists have equitable access to a potential audience? And how can users trust that we are being shown artists that are the best match for us, not reflective of someone else’s bias or financial goals?
‘The 100 Days of Colour’ is an experiment wherein I monitored the way Spotify was recommending music to me based on race. I was able to backtrack patterns in representation in playlists to identify the demographic of the Spotify team. This demonstrates how the subconscious bias of programmers and curators is passed on to users through the filter of algorithmic bias.
This experiment is an example of how human bias can seep into even seemingly non-partisan digital operations. Bias is a part of being human and thus it is a part of the technology we create. In this presentation I will introduce the experiment and offer some key insights that will make you rethink your music streaming habits.
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