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DECATUR — Lorena Meyenberg, who is from Mexico, has experienced discrimination and exclusion at various times in her life.

So the Archer Daniels Midland Co. sales manager knows the importance of checking one's unconscious biases — judgments that people make without evening thinking. On Friday, she was among a number of ADM employees who tested their own perspective when the CEO Action “Check Your Blind Spots” bus tour stopped outside the company’s Decatur corporate office.

“I can relate very well to those cases,” she said. “You face discrimination sometimes without really thinking.”

The bus houses a number of interactive activities, including virtual-reality games that critique the participants' perspective in certain situations. The tour is making more than 100 stops throughout the country in 2019, of which Decatur was 42nd.

“The goal is to bring action and awareness on unconscious biases,” said Mischa Lewis, tour coordinator with Check Your Blind Spots. “That is when we make snap judgments about someone’s character, ability or their potential. It colors our decisions without us even realizing it.”