Creating a safe, diverse, and inclusive work place is super important to me. One of the most important ways that manifests is the people that you work with everyday. As part of the hiring process, we've implemented some specific questions around micro-aggressions in order to get an understanding of how the candidate thinks and feels about them.  Since a person's experience with racism, homophobia, sexism, and ableism is squishy and terribly hard to evaluate, I've created a rubric to help identify signal to whether or not a candidate is high risk for perpetrating micro-aggressions. There's a lot more to this story, but  I wanted to share the rubric as it is now, and that its so far effective. 


Often we pose hypotheticals in order to understand a person't thinking process and somatic experience. For example
"You notice a colleague use the wrong pronouns for your teammate several times. What might you do or not do?"