"A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available to a particular person or group." This is the definition of privilege, a contentious word that often conjures anger, defensiveness, and divisiveness. Why is this? In this course, we'll start to answer this question by discussing exactly what privilege is, how it shows up in our lives, why it's such a sensitive topic for many, and how we can use our privilege to elicit change.

Understanding your own privileges involves studying the life around you and seeing where you fit in. It requires you to take inventory of your own privileges. Before viewing this course, please complete the questionnaire provided to reveal your areas of privilege. Then, as you watch this course, we'll show you how some of those areas listed on the questionnaire impact career opportunities.

Once you've been able to explore your own privileges and understand how they've provided an advantage to you throughout your life, you can use any privilege for good to lift others up. In order to do this successfully, you should understand how privilege shows up differently for different people, a concept known as "intersectionality," which we'll discuss here. We'll also talk about finding opportunities to make real change, through listening, learning, and letting yourself get "uncomfortable."