The North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC)* is committed to promoting a global plant sciences community that reflects the true diversity of all its members.
To further this mission, the NAASC Diversity and Inclusion Task Force (contact: arabidopsisconference@gmail.com) created the DiversifyPlantSci online resource (
https://tinyurl.com/DiversifyPlantSci) , a list of plant biologists from under-represented groups to reference as you seek speakers, reviewers, and participants for career or mentorship opportunities.
We hope to increase diversity and inclusion by making it easy to expand invitations past one’s personal networks**. ---->
https://tinyurl.com/DiversifyPlantSci <------
1. Nominate yourself if you are a plant scientist who:
identifies as a woman; identifies as LGBTQIA+; has a disability; and/or is a member of an under-represented ethnic or racial group*** or otherwise belongs to an underrepresented or minoritized group in academia (please indicate non-listed underrepresented or minoritized group(s), identify(ies) in the last question of the form below).
2. Please do not nominate others, we allow self-registration only.
However we strongly encourage you to forward this form's URL to others that you know and invite them to consider signing up for inclusion.
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https://www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/deib**
https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/choosing-reviewers-recognition-not-recall-and-why-lists-like-diversifyeeb-are-useful/***As defined by NSF. Women, persons with disabilities, and three racial and ethnic groups—blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians or Alaska Natives—are underrepresented in US STEM; we also include Filipino.
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2017/nsf17310/digest/introduction/DIVERSIFYPLANTSCI ONLINE LIST:
https://tinyurl.com/DiversifyPlantSci 