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Jane Elliott

Jane Elliott Facts:

• Internationally known teacher, lecturer and diversity sensitivity trainer, lectures for schools, corporations and Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and worldwide (Australia, United Kingdom, Ireland, Holland, Scotland, Canada, Germany, Alaska).

•1970, Member, White House Conference on Children and Youth

• Recipient of the Sidney Hillman Award (Honorary Award) (1985)
•Recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education.
• Recipient of The Cristine Wilson Medal for Equality and Justice.
• Recipient of The Ally Award (Center for the Healing of Racism, 2003)
• Recipient of The Salem Award for Humanitarianism (2004)
• Recipient of The Columbia University Teacher’s College Social Justice Action Award (2005)

• Adaptor of the controversial and startling “blue eyed-brown eyed” exercise, developed in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (immortalized in the 1970 documentary, Eye of the Storm, 25 minutes)

• The “blue eyed-brown eyed” exercise, which labels participants as inferior or superior based on the color of their eyes, is a powerful tool in exposing white people to the experience of being a minority. It was prompted by Leon Uris’ Mila 18, as eye color was one of the ways Hitler determined who went to the gas chamber.

• Subject of the book A Class Divided (Yale University Press, 1971), published in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Norway and Sweden.

• Subject of 8 critically acclaimed documentaries, winners of multiple Emmy’s & Peabody awards -Eye of the Storm, A Class Divided, The Eye of the Beholder, Blue Eyed, The Angry Eye, The Stolen Eye, Eye to Eye, Indecently Exposed

• German VOGUE profile of Jane Elliott. (December, 2000)

• Oprah Winfrey’s Magazine “O” profiles Jane Elliott in its “Phenomenal Woman” column. (December, 2000)

• Granada Television’s The Human Zoo, and BBC’s Five Steps to Tyranny spotlight Jane Elliott conducting her exercise with British participants from 17 years to 63.

• Trainer, General Electric, Exxon, AT&T, IBM, and other Corporations
• More than 50% of the Fortune 500 use Jane Elliott’s documentaries
• Lecturer, IRS, US Navy, US Department of Education, Postal Service, etc.
• Lecturer, More than 1,000 Universities and Schools

Comments Received on Jane Elliott’s Lectures

From Colonel Ronald Joe, former Commandant Defense Equal Opportunity
Management Institute:

“It is hard to find words to express the power of her message. One student commented: ‘I thought I had learned everything I needed to know about discrimination until I saw Ms. Elliott - she has turned my life around.’”

From Hon. Alice L. Gilbert, Circuit Judge, State of Michigan:

“The most revolutionary and effective method dealing with racism....”

From Angle Dunlap, Texas Tech University:

“Our security officer was hired to be there [at Jane Elliott’s lecture], yet he commented that it was the best thing he could have done and wished the entire police department had been there. Though they go through diversity training every two years, he said he learned more from Ms. Elliott that he had in all his years of training.”

From Brian Correia, James Madison University:

"The show was successful beyond measure. The night of the show we had approximately 900 students and faculty in attendance and another 700 were denied admission due to over capacity. Even though the show lasted around three hours, the guests did not want the show to end. The majority of the people in attendance stayed through the whole lecture and many even stayed afterwards to talk to her personally. The students that stayed had in-depth discussions with Jane Elliott concerning discrimination at James Madison. At all times you could tell that Ms. Elliott enjoys speaking to students and hoped that she made a difference in today’s society.”

From Roberta Larson, Indiana University:

“I have been involved with programming and diversity training for eight years. Jane Elliott’s presentation far exceeded my expectations. She is a dynamic lecturer with a strong message . . . During her three hour presentation, Jane Elliott asked 270 MBA’s if they would like a short break. To my amazement, they said no! Although her message is a hard one for some to hear, she left with a standing ovation and students asking the administration to make Jane Elliott a standard piece of our annual Orientation.”

From Christina Smitthhisler, University of North Dakota:

“Last night Jane Elliott inspired, challenged and awed a crowd of 600 students, faculty and staff at the University of North Dakota. It was the most successful lecture program we have had on campus in years . . .
I have never seen a crowd of people sit and listen for two and a half hours. One of the amazing parts of the evening was at the end of the lecture when Jane received a standing ovation, something not often seen at a lecture focusing on racism.

The response to the lecture has been tremendous. Even though it has been less than twenty-four hours, I have received numerous positive comments from both students and faculty. Some are even asking when Jane will be back on campus. Jane had four handouts which we copied and let people pick up after the program. So many people wanted the handouts that we ran out and this morning at 8:00 AM people were waiting for me to make additional copies.”

Comments Received on Jane Elliott’s Videos:

"It won't help much to be prepared to face Jane Elliott. This elderly woman will tear down any shield. Even we, the spectators in BLUE EYED, can't get rid of this feeling of uneasiness, embarrassment, anxiety and utterly helpless hatred when she starts keeping people down, humiliating them, deriding them, incapacitating them. No doubt about this: for three quarters of the time in this documentation Jane Elliott is the meanest, the lowest, the most detestable, the most hypocritical human being hell has ever spit back on earth. But she should be an example for all of us." - Stuttgarter Zeitung

“Thank you so much for having the guts to show this program. I really think that the Australian government should make an effort to employ this woman to lecture at every government and private high school in this country. She would do wonders for our country. Her methods may be blunt, but wow, do they work!”

“I would like to know if I can get a copy of this program on video through you? My son and I happened to catch it while we were flicking from channel to channel, and stopped there. My son is 18 and is studying psychology, and he didn’t move. He sat glued to the television, which usually only happens during Baywatch, and even told me to shut up when I asked if he wanted anything to eat! ”

“This was the most amazing program I have seen. It was the strangest thing. I got home from a 16 hour shift at work, and flicked through to find anything worth taping. I found the program, and started watching it. Within five minutes, I was crying. It was the most refreshing, yet emotional program that I have ever seen. Thank you so much!”

Comments By Jane Elliott’s 3rd Grade Students who went through the exercise:

”What Jane taught is woven into the fabric of my being, You cannot underestimate the impact that such an experience has had on us. I don’t know how anyone who went through the experience can say that they have not been changed. Jane must get the credit she deserves for making the world a better place, and making us better human beings. The level of impact of the experiment is on the same magnitude as your first love, the first death of someone close to you, the birth of a child." – Ray Hansen, 44

"Ms. Elliott gave me a sense of compassion and fairness. When I see someone being treated differently than someone else, I remember what it felt like the day the brown-eyed people were [discriminated against]. We were created equal, and somewhere along the way people have forgotten that... As part of Ms. Elliott’s experiment, I learned to treat others the way I wanted to be treated, and by helping children hopefully they will grow to help others. That’s the way to change society." – Debra Anderson Roth, 46

”I am glad someone like Jane Elliott opened my eyes. You just didn’t see different races here. The experiment stuck with me. You can’t judge another person unless you’ve walked in his shoes. And I think it only could be done with young kids. Older kids have an attitude. But 8-year-olds love their teachers. They soak up whatever their teachers tell them." – Penny Rickerl, 41

"Today some of my best friends are blacks. [Elliott] made me aware of what prejudice was about." – Alan Moss, 46

Available Products

THE STOLEN EYE: Jane Elliott brings a group of Aborigines and white Australians together for her landmark blue-eyed/brown-eyed diversity training exercise. American diversity trainers may find the film helpful because it removes the experience of oppression from ...
EYE OF THE STORM: The first peabody award winning film on the "blue eyed/brown eyed" exercise, this 1970 ABC news speical shows Jane Elliott in her third grade classroom and records the storm of controersy her exercise unleased in the local ...
A CLASS DIVIDED: Fourteen years after the initial third grade class exercise (see EYE OF THE STORM VHS), eleven of the students return for a reunion. As young adults, the former students talk about the impact Jane Elliott's lesson in bigotry has had on their lives ...
THE ANGRY EYE: THE ANGRY EYE brings the "blue eyed/brown eyed" exercise up to date for the MTV ...
The Essential Blue-eyed (complete package): Now Americas most powerful diversity video can be yours in a new form: one 3-1/2 hour DVD or 3 VHS ...