Ajay T. Abraham, PhD earned a PhD in Marketing and has worked for multiple organizations, from Microsoft to Wipro, at the axis of marketing and technology. With an avid interest in morality and the market place, Abraham engages ideas of diversity and identity in a way that draws the viewer in, asking each of us to think about the forces that influence our everyday experience.
CENTERING WISDOM
Reflection: Dr. Abraham discusses salient identities that are most visible depending on the environment you are in, where your other identities exist but one sits at the forefront depending on the spaces you are in. What salient identities do you hold in your various environments?
Reflection: Consider the identities you hold that you don’t think about often, or identities that you used to hold but don’t know; what do you appreciate about these parts of yourself and what is difficult about them?
Activity: Describe an activity or social event that you go to where you share many identities in common with the people there (Dr. Abraham described his religious community), how does being surrounded by a shared group-identity transform your own?