Diversity

Students arrive at Berkeley with different backgrounds, experiences, scientific preferences, scientific knowledge, and worldviews. This mosaic augments their formal education, amplifies innovation, and makes everyone happier and more engaged. Diverse teams simply perform better. In keeping with this view, our laboratory welcomes scientists regardless of background, race, religion, age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender, and we work to ensure that all individuals are championed and defended.

 

Training and Educational Opportunities for Allies

At UC Berkeley

• Peer-led Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment (SVSH) Workshops
• Diversity and Inclusion Focus Group (DIFG) Events 
• The Restorative Justice Center’s Transforming Whiteness for Racial Justice Workshop
• Multicultural Education Program Certificate Curriculum
• Training and Curriculum from the Othering and Belonging Institute
• Guide to Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Grad Students at UC Berkeley
• Strategic Planning for Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Toolkits
• Senate Faculty Search Guide: for increasing diversity in hiring and retention of faculty and staff
• Resources for anti-racist actions, learnings, and engagement compiled by the Chancellor

For TAs, Lecturers, and Instructors

• Institute for Broadening Participation: online library of information on recruitment, mentoring, and retention of underrepresented students
• List of resources assembled by the Multicultural Education Program

In the local community

• Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour
• Assorted Walking Tours from the Berkeley Historical Society
• Telegraph Avenue Interactive Historical Walking Tour App

In the greater scientific community

• Shut Down STEM, particularly these resources detailing how anti-Black racism manifests in academia
• Implicit Bias Video Tutorial
• Speak Up!: a guide to responding to bigoted comments and jokes in the workplace
• AWAKE to WOKE to WORK: Building a Race Equity Culture
• Guidelines Toward Inclusive Practices in Academics by eLife Community Ambassadors 
• 10 Small Steps for Department Chairs to Foster Inclusion
• Online Safe Zone Training
• Video Interventions for Diversity in Science (VIDS)
• NIGMS Webinar on Culturally Aware Mentorship

 

Volunteer Opportunities for Allies

Have a favorite organization or group from the previous lists? Start by volunteering there. New to Berkeley? Our department’s Diversity and Inclusion Focus Group (DIFG) is a great place to get started.

Outreach opportunities 

• Coalition for Education and Outreach (umbrella organization)
• Community Resources for Science
• Science at Cal
• Bay Area Teen Science (B.A.T.S.)
• Expand Your Horizons (EYH)

Databases of potential speakers

• 500 Queer Scientists
• Diversify Protein Science
• Diversify Chemistry
• Request a Woman in STEMM (500 Women Scientists)

 

Places to Find Support and Community

At UC Berkeley

College of Chemistry initiatives: 

• Diversity and Inclusion Focus Groups (DIFG) 
• Dr. Yu Bi — Counseling & Psychological Services Satellite Counselor
• Chemistry Graduate Life Committee (CGLC)  

Student government/labor organizations: 

• Graduate Assembly
• UAW 2865 (Tutors, Readers, Graduate Student Instructors and Teaching Assistants)
• Berkeley Postdoctoral Association
• UAW 5810 (Postdocs)

Affinity groups and initiatives: 

• Division of Equity and Inclusion – Office for Graduate Diversity
• Visiting Scholar and Postdoc Affairs Office
• Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering (ASDE), Berkeley Chapter
• American Indian Graduate Student Association
• Disabled Students Program
• Cal NERDS
• Cal Veterans Group
• Latino/a Association of Graduate Students in Engineering and Science at UC Berkeley
• Iota Sigma Pi – Hydrogen Chapter (Women in Chemistry)          
• Queer grads
• Society of Women in the Physical Sciences at Berkeley
• Thriving in Science
• Women in Chemistry Initiative 
• Inclusive Recreation at the Berkeley Rec Center
• Office of Diversity and Outreach (UCSF)

Campus resources for harassment and discrimination: 

• Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination (OPHD) – Title IX and Title VI 

Institutional Reporting: 

• PATH to Care Center (confidential support)
• Ombuds Office for Students and Postdocs
• Reporting (SVSH and hate crime/hate-motivated act)

Mental health and wellness: 

• Tang Center: mental health
• Be Well resources for stress management
• Gold Folder (resources for students in distress)
• The Greater Good Center at UC Berkeley
• Berkeley nap spaces

LGBTQ+ resources: 

• Inclusive restrooms
• Lavender Cal OutList
• Trans healthcare services
• Info on changing preferred name, pronouns, gender

In the greater scientific community

• American Chemical Society
  • Committee on Minority Affairs
  • Chemists with Disabilities
  • LGBTQ Chemists
  • Women Chemists Committee
• Out in STEM (oSTEM)
• National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Science and Technology Professionals (NOGLSTP)
• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
• National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
• 500 Women Scientists
• Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
• Cientifico Latino
• Ciencia PR
• Being Human in STEM
• Minority Postdoc