Working Groups
Academic Recruitment
Academic Recruitment Group is responsible for enhancing the recruitment of under-represented groups to our Academic Programs (JP, postdocs, undergrad programs). This group works with APO, PEP, and MIT to establish institutional relationships and pathways for access. Current initiatives focus on middle and high school outreach education, student recruitment strategies, and publishing the Through the Porthole newsletter which offers resources for undergraduate students considering applying to graduate school.
Contact: Kama Thieler and Tom Bell
Messaging
The Messaging Group is responsible for composing, designing, and communicating our message within and beyond the WHOI community. They collaborated with local community media center, FCTV, to publish a series of short interviews called “Conversation Starters”. This series highlights members of the WHO community working on DEI related initiatives (linked here). This group is also responsible for designing and launching the #humansofwhoi campaign in collaboration with the Communications Department, as well as working with the CDEIO on expanding inclusive artwork on the WHOI campus.
Contact: Elise Hugus and Veronique LaCapra
Events
Events Group is responsible for organizing the Committee's participation in events we initiate, such as Celebrating Humans of WHOI, as well as those we co-sponsor with other groups and the CDEIO, such as the Room Naming Celebration, events at the Science Stroll, and others. We also developed and maintain the WHOI Inclusive Event Guidelines.
Contact: Laura Motta and Loay Jabre
Disability Education and Advocacy
The WHOI Disability Education and Advocacy Working Group was formed in fall 2024 to increase awareness and promote equity, inclusion, and access for people with disabilities at WHOI and for the broader communities that we serve. We aim to expand the WHOI community’s understanding of unintentional biases and barriers excluding disabled people and ways to overcome those challenges. We strive to develop ourselves as a resource and a collective voice for people with disabilities to advocate for structural and cultural changes. Ultimately, our goal is to develop WHOI as a supportive and effective working and learning environment for all by advocating for the removal of existing barriers to inclusion and the implementation of equitable policies and procedures.
Contact: Amy Bower and Grace Simpkins
Retired Working Groups
The CDEI recongizes that at any point in time, new working groups are needed to tackle issues and these usually grow out of community interest and engagement from both within and outside of the CDEI. In the past, we have had working groups that focused on Community Building, the URGE program, Incubator for new ideas, and Room Naming. If you have ideas for future working groups, email the co-chairs: Julie Huber & Ben Weiss.
Updates
Woods Hole Sea Grant is pleased to announce that a recording of “A Sea Change: Oceanographers Learn From Psychologists about Systematic Racism in America” is now available through the WHSG diversity, equity and inclusion website. The virtual symposium curated by Dr. Collin Ward at WHOI on Nov. 20 is part of WHSG’s initiative to increase…
A Sea Change: Oceanographers Learn From Psychologists About Systemic Racism in America Friday November 20, 3 pm EST Zoom Registration Required: Click here! Speakers and Panelists: Dr. Steven Roberts, Dr. Amber Williams, Dr. Mike Rizzo, and Dr. Babe Kawaii-Bogue Free and open to the public! Sea Change Event Ad pdf
The Room Naming Working Group is charged with honoring the important contributions of people of under-represented races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities at WHOI. This Working Group is composed of members of the Women’s Committee, Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, Workplace Climate Committee, International Committee, and Development, and will facilitate the naming of…
UPDATED: Presentation below. Kuheli Dutt of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will deliver the MC&G seminar virtually on Tuesday July 21st at 12:15pm. Information will be posted when available here. The citation for Kuheli Dutt’s recent paper is: Dutt, K. Race and racism in the geosciences. Nat. Geosci. 13, 2–3 (2020), linked here.
UPDATE: Recorded event available here. MBLs Friday evening lectures are kicking off July 3 with Hannah Valantine from the National Institutes of Health. Visit MBLs website for more information: MBL Public Events Calendar
Please join the Diversity Advisory Committee for the 2020 Ambrose Jearld Jr. Lecture July 23,2020 at 2pm on zoom. For more information and to register please visit: https://www.woodsholediversity.org/events/ambrose-jearld-jr-lecture/ Registration is required for this event.
You are invited to an event organized by community members to highlight voices of local people of color. Curated storytelling and art will center on racism, police brutality, marginalization, and life as a minority here on Cape Cod. The event is Saturday, July 11th at 2pm on the Hyannis Village Green.
WHOI’s Ying-Tsong (Y.T.) Lin has become the first WHOI scientist to visit Challenger Deep in person and only “the 12th person in history and the first person of Asian descent to visit ocean’s deepest seafloor.” Dr. Lin is a scientist in the Ocean Acoustics & Signals Lab in the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering department.…
Amid this year’s Black Lives matter protests and charged atmosphere, Juneteenth is receiving widespread recognition. George Floyd’s brutal murder has sparked a national reckoning on race and police brutality. Even before today’s demands for more transparency and accountability in policing, and racial justice in our society, remembrance of this piece of American history was having…