Professor Rahul Chakraborty is a faculty member at Cal State Fullerton, where he is the director of Bilingualism & Speech Laboratory, primarily focusing physiological evidence of first and second language interaction in adult bilinguals. His most recent work throughout the last few years have been about accent bias, its prevalence and the role that it plays in society and geopolitics.

Accent bias is something that affects everyone, yet is rarely acknowledged in bias-related discourse. From hospitals to education, accent bias is prevalent in people's subconscious (or conscious) judgements of others. Some people even believe they can tell another's body shape judging by that person's accent. In this episode we learn about the professor's research, discuss the ethics of businesses making accent-related decisions, and the path to his ideal future without such biases.

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