Search Results for: Carlos Cortes

Advisors, Authors A-H, Social Issues

Renewing Diversity Part 11: The Mysterious World of Diversity and Economics – by Carlos Cortés

I’ve always been a bit perplexed when it comes to the intersection of economics and diversity.  Maybe this is inevitable because of the sprawling, multifaceted, and contentious nature of the field of economics itself.  As the old saying goes, “You can stack all of the world’s economists end to end and never reach a conclusion.” … Continue reading Renewing Diversity Part 11: The Mysterious World of Diversity and Economics – by Carlos Cortés →

Advisors, Authors A-H, Gender

Renewing Diversity Part 10: Unpacking the Inclusivity Dilemma in Health Care – by Carlos Cortés

I recently received an invitation to attend the national conference of the Society for Intercultural Education, Teaching, and Research.   The conference theme was “Inclusive Interculturalism.” The implicit message was simple: in order to be inclusive, interculturalists need to make a conscious effort .  Inclusivity doesn’t come naturally. In my last month’s ADR column I … Continue reading Renewing Diversity Part 10: Unpacking the Inclusivity Dilemma in Health Care – by Carlos Cortés →

Advisors, Authors A-H, Education, Inclusion

Renewing Diversity Part 9: Rediscovering My Professional Journey – by Carlos Cortés

For nearly a year I’ve been going through an out-of-body experience. It was launched by a simple request that has turned into a not-so-simple journey.  Here’s what happened. In the fall of 2024, Steven Mandeville-Gamble, Director of the University of California, Riverside, Library, asked me to donate my professional papers to the library’s Special Collections.  … Continue reading Renewing Diversity Part 9: Rediscovering My Professional Journey – by Carlos Cortés →

Advisors, Authors A-H

Renewing Diversity No. 8: Updating the Classics – by Carlos Cortés 

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To a great extent, popular culture is a series of remakes.  Remakes of classical theatre.  Remakes of children’s stories.  Remakes of old movies. There’s nothing basically wrong with that.  Hamlet has been restaged thousands of times, sometimes preserving its original historical context, other times being modernized.  Film director Akira Kurosawa transported “Macbeth” and “King Lear” … Continue reading Renewing Diversity No. 8: Updating the Classics – by Carlos Cortés  →

Advisors, Authors A-H, Generational, Religious Diversity Kit

Renewing Diversity No. 7: A Sliver of Bone – by Carlos Cortés 

“Do you have any religious or ethical reservations about what kind of bone we put in your mouth?”  That question both startled and pleased me.  As I answered with a simple “no,” I broke into a broad smile. Some context.  My young periodondist was in the midst of trying to save my 90-year-old mouthful of … Continue reading Renewing Diversity No. 7: A Sliver of Bone – by Carlos Cortés  →

Advisors, Authors A-H, Gender, Sports

Renewing Diversity #6: Trans Talk – by Carlos Cortés 

“Can we finally stop talking about trans sports?” read the headline in the February 11, 2025, Los Angeles Times.  Of course this was followed by a column talking about — you guessed it — trans sports.  So the answer is no, we have to keep talking about trans sports for the same reason that people … Continue reading Renewing Diversity #6: Trans Talk – by Carlos Cortés  →

Advisors, Authors A-H, Social Issues

Renewing Diversity #5: Wrestling with History – by Carlos Cortés 

In his new book, A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present, historian Glenn Adamson muses, “every story about the future is also a demand to intervene in the present.”  I should also add that every story about the present has its roots in the past. I was trained as a historian, … Continue reading Renewing Diversity #5: Wrestling with History – by Carlos Cortés  →

Advisors, Authors A-H, Trends 2025: Chaotic Times

Renewing Diversity #4: Pivoting to the Future – by Carlos Cortés

Somewhere during my ninety-year journey I developed a three-line, fifteen-word personal action mantra.  It goes like this. “Look unflinchingly at the past. Apply it to the present. Then pivot to the future.” So when I think about diversity in 2025, I think about pivoting for renewal, not merely defending the diversity past or doubling-down on … Continue reading Renewing Diversity #4: Pivoting to the Future – by Carlos Cortés →

Advisors, Authors A-H

Renewing Diversity #3: We Failed George Floyd – by Carlos Cortés 

In 1999, Malcolm Gladwell weighed in with his praised and criticized bestseller, The Tipping Point, a provocative exploration of the process of social change.   A quarter century later, in 2024, Gladwell revisited the topic via Revenge of the Tipping Point, a meditation on where he had been right and where he had gone wrong … Continue reading Renewing Diversity #3: We Failed George Floyd – by Carlos Cortés  →

Advisors, Wellness

Renewing Diversity #2: Teaching Health Equity – by Carlos Cortés, Adwoa Osei

In July, 2020, the two of us became the inaugural co-directors of the University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine’s new Health Equity, Social Justice, and Anti-Racism (HESJAR) curricular initiative.   Since then the teaching of health equity to medical students has been a journey of continuous renewal.    Publications about health equity emerge nearly … Continue reading Renewing Diversity #2: Teaching Health Equity – by Carlos Cortés, Adwoa Osei →