Addressing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism In 21st Century STEMM Organizations: A Summit

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Addressing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism in 21st Century STEMM Organizations convened a national summit in July 2021 that highlighted how racism operates at different levels in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) settings; reviewed policies and practices for confronting systemic racism; and explored ways to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEMM settings.

The 2-day, public webcast summit explored the empirical and experiential evidence related to the ways in which systemic racism and other barriers impede STEMM careers for historically marginalized racial/ethnic groups, and explored ways to address these barriers, including strategies undertaken by stakeholder communities. In this summit, speakers discussed how diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism impact STEMM organizations. The workshop presentations focused on issues related to the history of racism in the United States, the lasting legacy of biased policies in the nation, and the research on practices to address systemic and structural racism in STEMM organizations. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of summit.

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12 pages · 8.5 x 11 ·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-09273-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/26294

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Addressing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism in 21st Century STEMM Organizations: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Gilda A. Barabino

Gilda A. Barabino (NAE/NAM) is President of Olin College of Engineering. She previously served as Daniel and Frances Berg Professor and Dean at The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Grove School of Engineering. Prior to joining CCNY, she was Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. At Georgia Tech she also served as the inaugural Vice Provost for Academic Diversity. Prior to Georgia Tech and Emory, she rose to the rank of Professor of Chemical Engineering and was Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Northeastern University. She is a noted investigator in the areas of sickle cell disease, cellular and tissue engineering, and the role of race/ethnicity and gender in science and engineering. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and is a Fellow of AAAS, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). She is Past-President of BMES and Past-President of AIMBE. She has received an honorary degree from Xavier University of Louisiana, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, AIChE’s Award for Service to Society, and AIMBE’s Pierre Galetti Award. Dr. Barabino serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advisory Committee for Engineering, the congressionally mandated Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering, the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, and the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine which she chairs. She consults nationally and internationally on STEM education and research, diversity in higher education, policy, faculty and workforce development. She received a B.S. in chemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Rice University.

Keith R. Yamamoto

Keith R. Yamamoto (NAS/NAM) is University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) vice chancellor for science policy and strategy, director of precision medicine for UCSF, and professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF. He is a leading researcher investigating transcriptional regulation by nuclear receptors, which mediate the actions of essential hormones and cellular signals; he uses mechanistic and systems approaches to pursue these problems in pure molecules, cells and whole organisms. He has led or served on numerous national committees focused on public and scientific policy, public understanding and support of biological research, and science education; he Co-Chairs the Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science. As previous Chair of the NAS Board on Life Sciences, he created the study committee that produced “Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease,” the report that enunciated the precision medicine concept, and he has helped to lead efforts in the White House, in Congress, in Sacramento and at UCSF to implement it. He has chaired or served on many committees that oversee training and the biomedical workforce, research funding, and the process of peer review and the policies that govern it at the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the advisory board for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the board of directors of Research!America. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has a B.S. in biochemistry and biophysics from Iowa State University, and a Ph.D. of biochemical sciences from Princeton University.

Marielena DeSanctis

Marielena DeSanctis serves as the President of Community College of Denver. Marie joined Community College of Denver in January 2021, and she brings almost six years of experience as an engineer; and over 22 years as a leader in education. Previously, she served as Provost & Senior Vice-President, Academic Affairs and Student Services of Broward College. At Broward College, she led the work of all the Campus Presidents, the Vice-Provost of Student Services, the Vice-Provost of Academic Affairs, the Executive Director of International Education, and the Associate Vice-President of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. She has also served as a committee member and leader of several professional organizations including her election to the position of State President of the Florida Association of School Administrators; Chair of the statewide Council of Student Affairs; a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Board on Higher Education and the Workforce; and a Board Member of the National Community College’s Hispanic Council. Marie earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology; a M.S. in Math Education from Nova Southeastern University; and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Florida Atlantic University. She is a member of the 2019 class of the Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence, a graduate of LeadershipFlorida Class XXXV, received the College Board Inspiration Award, was a Broward County Principal of the Year finalist, received a Center for Digital Education K-12 Best of the Web Award, and a 2016 Hispanic Woman of Distinction among other honors.

Susan T. Fiske

Susan T. Fiske (NAS) is Eugene Higgins Professor, Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University. She investigates social cognition, especially cognitive stereotypes and emotional prejudices, at cultural, interpersonal, and neural levels. Author of over 400 articles and chapters, she is most known for theories and research on how people think about each other: the continuum model of impression formation, the power-as-control theory, the ambivalent sexism theory, and the stereotype content model (SCM). She testified for President Clinton's Race Initiative and appeared in a Supreme Court decision on gender discrimination, also cited in support of LGBTQ+ rights. Currently an editor of the Annual Review of Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, she has written Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture, winner of the 2020 BBVA Frontiers of Science Award, and Envy Up and Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us, supported by a Guggenheim. She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was 2014-15 President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences and 2002-03 President of the Association for Psychological Science. She received both her B.A. in social relations and her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University; with honorary doctorates from Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands; Universität Basel, Switzerland; Universidad de Granada. She chaired the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences from 2015-2020 and served on several consensus reports (measuring discrimination, scientific workforce, aging workforce, human subjects).

Juan E. Gilbert

Juan E. Gilbert is currently the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and Chair of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department at the University of Florida where he leads the Human Experience Research Lab. He has research projects in election security/usability/accessibility, advanced learning technologies, usability and accessibility, Human-Centered AI/machine learning and Ethnocomputing (Culturally Relevant Computing). He is an ACM Fellow, a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In 2012, Dr. Gilbert received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring from President Barack Obama. He also received the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2014 Mentor Award. He received the 2021 ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award. Dr. Gilbert received the 2018 Computer Research Association's A. Nico Habermann Award. Dr. Gilbert has served on three National Academies consensus committees, "The Role of Authentic STEM Learning Experiences in Developing Interest and Competencies for Technology and Computing", "The Science of Effective Mentoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine, and Mathematics (STEMM)" and "The Future of Voting: Accessible, Reliable, Verifiable Technology". He earned a B.S. in systems analysis from Miami University (Ohio) and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Cincinnati.

Darryl Monteau

Darryl Monteau is the SACNAS Native Initiatives Manager. She is an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and also Apache and Comanche descent. Monteau has worked in higher education for most of her professional career at colleges/universities (public and tribal colleges) in many areas that include academic affairs, student services, nonprofit organizations, and grant-funded initiatives. Prior to coming to SACNAS she worked for the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AiHEC) as a program coordinator for the Aseto’ne Network Project (NIH program) which was aimed at engaging tribal college students in biomedical and health research. She enjoys working with students, especially students of color, in navigating college and sharing information and opportunities to enhance their academic experience. Monteau is proud to be a part of SACNAS and appreciates the vision of the organization, “achieving true diversity in STEM”. She has a B.A. in American Indian Studies from Haskell Indian Nations University and M.A. and Ed.D. degrees in Higher Education Administration from the University of Kansas (KU).

Roderic I. Pettigrew

Roderic I. Pettigrew (NAE/NAM), serves as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Engineering Health (EnHealth) and executive dean for Engineering Medicine (EnMed) at Texas A&M University, in partnership with Houston Methodist Hospital. Dr. Pettigrew also holds the endowed Robert A. Welch Chair in Medicine. EnHealth is the nation's first comprehensive educational program to fully integrate engineering into all health-related disciplines. EnMed is the nation's first four-year, fully-integrated engineering and medical education curriculum leading to both a MD and master's degree in engineering in 4 years. An internationally recognized leader in biomedical imaging and bioengineering, Dr. Pettigrew served for 15 years as the founding director for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to his appointment at the NIH, he joined Emory University School of Medicine as professor of radiology and medicine (cardiology) and Georgia Institute of Technology as professor of bioengineering. Dr. Pettigrew is known for pioneering work in four-dimensional imaging of the cardiovascular system using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences, India. Awards include gold medals from the Academy of Radiology Research and the RSNA, the Arthur M. Bueche Award from the NAE and the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Board. He is a graduate of Morehouse College as a Merrill Scholar (B.S .in Physics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Whitaker HST fellow (Ph.D. in radiation physics), the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami ( M.D.), and completed residency training at UC San Diego.

Kecia M. Thomas

Kecia M. Thomas is an expert in the psychology of workplace diversity. She currently serves as the Dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham's College of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarship and institutional engagements focus on the issues of strategic diversity recruitment, supporting diversity in STEM workplaces, and understanding the career experiences of high potential women of color. She is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters as well as the first I/O diversity textbook Diversity Dynamics in the Workplace (Thomson Wadsworth). She also served as editor of six volumes, including Diversity Resistance in the Workplace vol. 1 & 2 (Taylor-Francis/Routledge) and Diversity Ideologies in Organizations (Routledge). She is an elected-Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race, and the Society of I/O Psychology. She is also a past recipient of the Janet Chusmir Award for Distinguished Service from the Academy of Management. She currently serves on the national change team for the NSF-funded Aspire, the national alliance for inclusive and diverse STEM faculty. Dr. Thomas earned a B.A. in psychology and Spanish from Bucknell University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University. She is also a graduate of the HERS Management Institute at Wellesley College, the SEC Academic Leadership Development Program, and the University System of Georgia Executive Leadership Institute.

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