Geena Davis Tackles Unconscious Bias In Entertainment For Children

Geena Davis shared an anecdote with me when I sat down with her last week at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston. She told me Catherine Hardwick, the director of the film Twilight, attended the Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) last year and left feeling exuberant and empowered. As she and a group of friends boarded a plane to return to LA, the pilot welcomed everyone on board and announced details of the flight. But in this instance, the pilot was a woman. Hardwick admitted to Davis that her first thought was, “Oh, no. We might not be as safe as I hoped we would be if there were a male pilot.” And then she was astonished by her own unconscious bias! Read More…