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This resource guide was created by Trinity College Library & Information Technology Services in partnership with the Career & Life Design Center. For your internship, this guide can help you explore resources related to equity and belonging, skills development, and life long learning. All of the books listed are available through the library, either digitally or in person.
Antiracism & DEI
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TED Talks
LGBTQ+ Studies
Websites
- Creating Authentic Spaces: A Gender Identity and Gender Expression Toolkit to Support the Implementation of Institutional and Social Change
Explores the experiences and challenges faced by trans people and supports organizations and individuals to develop approaches to fostering a trans inclusive environment. - Tech's Racial Diversity Problem Meets its Day of Reckoning
Tech's diversity problem is under intense scrutiny amid national protests over systemic racism. But the solution goes well beyond simply hiring more people of color. - Research: How Socioeconomic Status Impacts the Way We Network
Research conducted prior to the pandemic examined how high and low socioeconomic status people vary in activating their networks when they faced job threats. When high and low socioeconomic status people experienced job threats, lower socioeconomic status people tended to winnow (reporting smaller, more constrained networks), whereas high status people tended to widen (reporting larger, less constrained networks). But when higher socioeconomic status individuals widen to contacts with more novel information and opportunity, they position themselves to rebound from threats.
Essential Skills
Leadership
Designing Your Life by ISBN: 9781101875322Publication Date: 2016-09-20Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are.
Dare to Lead by ISBN: 9780399592522Publication Date: 2018-10-09A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential. But daring leadership in a culture defined by scarcity, fear, and uncertainty requires skill-building around traits that are deeply and uniquely human.
The Art of Possibility by ISBN: 9780142001103Publication Date: 2002-09-24Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment.
Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don't Even Exist Yet by ISBN: 9781119597483Publication Date: 2020-11-24How will a dramatically extended lifespan affect our careers? How will more time in the workforce shape our educational demands? Will a four-year degree earned at the start of a 100-year career adequately prepare us for the challenges ahead?
The Episodic Career by ISBN: 9781476751504Publication Date: 2016-01-26Profiling the rich, the poor, and people from every strata in between, Chideya seeks to understand the many kinds of work we do--for example, not just job fields, but whether we seek to build institutions or seek social change while earning money. In addition, Chideya provides a self-diagnostic tool to help you find your work/life "sweet spot."
Conflict Resolution
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Third Edition by ISBN: 9781260474213Publication Date: 2021-10-21When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a Crucial Conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results.
Discover Your True North by ISBN: 1119082978Publication Date: 2015-07-09Being a leader is about much more than title and management skills--it's fundamentally a question of who we are as human beings. Discover Your True North offers a concrete and comprehensive program for becoming an authentic leader, and shows how to chart your path to leadership success.
Emotional Regulation
Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning by ISBN: 9780306456206Publication Date: 1997-08-21Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning focuses on Dr. Frankl's crucial findings that illustrate our sometimes unconscious desire to get hold of an ultimate meaning of life - whether it comes from a religious source or other venue of inspiration or influence.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by ISBN: 9780374275631Publication Date: 2011-10-25The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation--each of these can be understood only by knowing how the systems of fast and slow thinking shape our judgments and decisions.
Interpersonal Communication
She Has Her Mother's Laugh by ISBN: 9781101984598Publication Date: 2018-05-29We say we inherit genes from our ancestors--using a word that once referred to kingdoms and estates--but we inherit other things that matter as much or more to our lives, from microbes to technologies we use to make life more comfortable.
