Who we are
Diverse Perspectives Consulting, LLC is led by Ilana Redstone. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has a joint Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of Pennsylvania.
At Diverse Perspectives Consulting, LLC, we believe that we can improve the climate through open communication and mutual understanding. We provide a framework and lay the foundation for that to happen.
Ilana has a forthcoming book (Oxford University Press, with co-author John Villasenor, UCLA), titled Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education, on the specifics of how related communication challenges constrain the academic endeavor. She is excited to bring these ideas and skills to the world outside of academia.
Ilana Redstone has published in a number of outlets on these topics. Her academic CV is linked here.
Writing
The Silent Crisis in the Classroom
Paper presented at 2019 FIRE Conference
The Conversation about Workplace Diversity We Should Be Having
Foundation for Economics in Education
On South Dakota's HB 1087 and Legislating Viewpoint Diversity
Heterodox Academy blog
What the "Free Speech" Debate Is Still Missing
Heterodox Academy blog
Viewpoint Diversity Does Not Extend to Extremist Hate
Heterodox Academy blog
We're Failing Our Students, and It Hurts Us All
National Review
All or Nothing: Why Our Discussions Over Inequality Go Nowhere
co-authored with John Iceland, Areo
The Dangers of Defining Deviancy Up
Quillette
How Ritualized Apologies Are Undermining Freedom of Expression
co-authored with John Villasenor, Quillette
3 Ways that Colleges Suppress a Diversity of Viewpoints
co-authored with John Villasenor, Chronicle of Higher Education
Kimmel and Conflict Theory: Sociology Turns Its Lens on One of Its Own
Quillette
The Costs of Policing Ideas
The American Interest
Four Years Later, Reframing the Salaita Controversy
Times Higher Education blog
Prepare Students to Be Foxes, Not Hedgehogs
Heterodox Academy blog
Polarization and the Delegitimization of Different Moral and Political Foundations
Conatus News
Empiricism, Ideology, and the Left: Returning to the Roots of Reason
Conatus News