Initiatives
Salon 4
ACCELERATING PATHWAYS TO LEADERSHIP
New strategies to broaden opportunities for STEM researchers and professionals from underrepresented groups to achieve decision-making roles across sectors from philanthropy, industry, academia and policy.
October 21, 2022
MAIN QUESTIONS
How to advance STEM fields by advancing leadership from underrepresented groups: current research and needs.
How can philanthropic investment spur leadership pathways?
How can we change the face of leadership in the International Development sector?
What’s the business model for the acceleration of change?
SPEAKERS
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
Daren Ginete, Civic Fellow at the Science Philanthropy Alliance
Bobby Jefferson, Vice President and Global Head of Diversity, Equity, Engagement, and Inclusion, DAI
Christopher Perkins, Institute for Black Economic Mobility, Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company
Cameron Bess, Project Officer, Antibacterials Branch, Division of CBRN Medical Countermeasures, BARDA
RESOURCES
Final Report of the 2018 AAS Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion in Astronomy Graduate Education
How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequity and justify inaction
That stat from the Sloan report about 10 institutions getting lion’s share of STEM Funding but doing almost nothing in DEI space is highlighted here.
Most US professors are trained at same few elite universities
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Reimagine a More Inclusive International Development Workplace
Mining for tech-talent gold: Seven ways to find and keep diverse talent
How to banish manels and manferences from scientific meetings
Tina Campt’s lecture, “Black Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity.”
How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequity and justify inaction