Siouxland Magazine - Volume 3 Issue 6 - version 2

DEI Self-Reflection for the Individual
By, Semehar Ghebrekidan, M.S.
In the last article, we learned about ourselves
as individuals through intersectionality
mapping. In case you missed it, intersectionality
mapping helps you identify the different dimensions
of your identity. This allows you to better understand
your lens, aka how you see the world daily and
what influences that. In this article, we will continue
learning about ourselves as an individual through
different available assessment tools. Please read
below to see a list of my favorite assessments you
can do today! I believe self-reflection regarding
diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is vital to creating
positive and effective change within yourself.
Project Implicit - Free
Project Implicit provides Implicit Association Test
(IAT). The IAT measures attitudes and beliefs that
people may be unwilling or unable to report. It does
this by using subconscious associations between
mental representations of concepts in memory.
Project Implicit has a variety of tests that can help
indicate whether you have a preference about a
certain group. The IAT may be especially interesting
if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that
you didn’t know about before. This test encourages
people to focus on strategies that deny implicit
biases the chance to operate by recognizing them.
Cultural Competence Self-Assessment
Checklist - Free
This self-assessment tool brought to you by AVMA
is designed to help you explore your individual
cultural competence. Its purpose is to help you
consider your own skills, knowledge, and awareness
in your interactions with others, and recognize what
you can do to become more effective working and
living in diverse environments.
an individual level. The IDI can help you reflect on your
experiences around cultural differences and similarities.
The results indicate a position along an intercultural
development continuum indicating a target for the next
stage of growth. The IDI provides feedback in the form
of actionable steps that you can take to help develop
better intercultural competency skills. Your IDI Profile
results can help you proactively address these and
other concerns, as well as increase your own cultural
self-awareness of your own unique experiences around
cultural differences and commonalities.
“People who have had little self-reflection
live life in a huge reality blind-spot.”
– Bryant McGill
Semehar Ghebrekidan is
the Community Inclusion
Liaison for the City of
Sioux City. She is charged
with Inclusion efforts to
help connect the City and
the community. Semehar
has her master’s degree
from South Dakota State
University in Sociology
and her bachelors in
Global Studies with
minors in Spanish and
Leadership & Nonprofit
Management. When
she is not working, you can catch her cooking,
reorganizing her home, and hanging out with her
family and friends.
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Clifton Strengths Finder - $20
The Clifton Strengths Finder assessment is a useful
tool in understanding what are your strengths.
Knowing these strengths is important when it
comes to cultural competency because it helps
people become known for what they do best,
as well as their demographics. This can also be
useful when communicating with others. Knowing
the strengths of the people around you can help
you communicate better with individuals, identify
similarities, uplift differences, and create a sense of
belonging.
Intercultural Development Inventory - $30+
(Administrator fees)
The IDI is an online, theory-based assessment of
intercultural competence that can provide results at
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