July 12th & 13th: Social Identity, Social Bias, and Social Justice I & II

Dr. Hoyt was born in Costa Rica and immigrated to the United States at the age of four. Dr. Hoyt holds a PhD in Social Work, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, and serves Director of Equity & Inclusion at Belmont Day School in Belmont, MA. He has held teaching positions at Simmons College, Lesley University, and Boston University, providing instruction in clinical skills and practice, group dynamics, multicultural assessment, and the dynamics of privilege and oppression.

Dr. Hoyt maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and provides training and consultation to schools and organizations including Arlington Public Schools, Boston College Lynch Leadership Academy, Concord Academy, Chestnut Hill School, Cambridge Friends School, Edith C. Baker Elementary School, University of California at San Francisco, and Grub Street Writing Center.

Dr. Hoyt’s approach to education, training, and development on matters related to social identity, social bias, and social justice combines preparing participants to interact fully, empathically, courageously, and candidly; grounding all content in up to date knowledge and best practices; facilitating experiential opportunities for participants to be active synthesizers and collaborators; and an emphasis on praxis – the translation of cognitive gains into effective personal action.

Dr. Hoyt lives in Lexington, MA where he can be found out in the yard, out on the tennis court, or out on his bike, if he’s not inside writing. His book, The Arc of a Bad Idea: Understanding and Transcending Race was published by Oxford University Press in 2016, and his most recent writing is a contribution to The Psychology of Peace Promotion: Global Perspectives on Personal Peace, Children and Adolescents and Social Justice, entitled, “Empathy in the Service of Intra- and Interpersonal Peace,” published in 2019.

More information on Dr. Hoyt can be found at www.carloshoyt.com.