Increasing Diversity Beyond the PhD

STEM Diversity Allies

Suggestions (from The Urban Scientist)

  • Senior colleagues, white male colleagues in particular, might leverage their popularity and insist planning committee book URM and junior scholars at the same event. 
  • Recommend URM to journalists/media
  • URMs include but not limited to: women, people w/disabilities, people of color, indigenous, LGBTQ, 1st generation college OR STEM graduates, from working class families (rural OR urban).
  • Broader considerations: URM of STEM scholars from community colleges and minority serving institutions
  • Scientists from the Global South especially Africa, Latin America, researchers centering Indigenous knowlege