Resources For Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ)

The reality of systemic racial disenfranchisement in the United States has never been so broadly apparent than it is today.

Given our mission at the ESA to strive towards diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) in the field of ecology as well as in society at large, we have dedicated this page to providing readers with a list of resources that have been suggested to us by the community.  ESA has not produced nor endorse these resources. 

• ESA WAMIE REPORT I (1993)
• ESA WAMIE REPORT II (2006)
• Celebrating and Empowering ESA – A Journey Towards Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice
• A Brief Summation of ESA’s Work to Diversify the Field and Stop Harassment
• ESA Letter to the Community (June 2020)

Resources for PIs, academic administrators and program faculty

• Next steps in dismantling discrimination: Lessons from ecology and conservation science
• Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions
• Diversity in science: next steps for research group leaders 
• Making graduate students of color feel legitimately welcome
• A thread for PIs on supporting black students     
• Black Lives Matter in ecology and evolution
• What Black scientists want from colleagues and their institutions
• How to support black students and academics from outside the community
• Productive advice for department heads to make real gains with POC
• Advice for supporting inclusive scientific communities during covid-19  
• Without inclusion, diversity initiatives may not be enough
• White Academia: Do Better.
• Why we fail at hiring black faculty in biology departments
• AdvanceGEO Resource Page for Lab Students and Faculty
• Role of Academia in Combatting Structural Racism in the United States
• LTER Curated List of DEI Resources
• A New Model for Increasing Diversity in STEM Faculty
• An Open Letter to the Union of Concerned Scientists: On Black Death, Black Silencing, and Black Fugitivity
• What Happens Before? A Field Experiment Exploring How Pay and Representation Differentially Shape Bias on the Pathway into Organizations
• Examples of University Diversity and Inclusion Chapter Statements:
  • Statement on anti-racism from Humphries Lab at University of Rhode Island
  • Philosophy and Governance Statement from UNC at Chapel Hill
• Initiating Classroom Dialogue about Race: A Narrative Framework
• Campaign Zero: Advocacy for systemic reforms
• How the Opaque Way We Hire Postdocs Contributes to Science’s Diversity Problem 

General Materials

Microaggressions

• Microaggressions Are A Big Deal: How To Talk Them Out And When To Walk Away
• Listen: how do you respond to microagressions?
• An everyday dimension of racism: why we need to understand microagressions 

How to be an Ally

• Guide to allyship
• Guidelines for being a strong white ally
• 5 initial ways you can be a good ally to POC 
• Checklist for White Allies
• How Racism Hurts Black Mental Health & How You Can Help
• Answering White People’s Most Commonly Asked Questions about the Black Lives Matter Movement
• How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race
• Implicit bias: how it affects us and how we push through
• How to outsmart your own implicit bias 

Educational Reform

• Social Justice Mathematics and Science Curricular Resources for K-12 Teachers 
• Easy steps to decolonize your syllabus 
• When the Academy Wants you to be Black
• Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment 
• Exploitation of scholars of color in academia
• The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
• #ShutDownSTEM Resource Page for people of different backgrounds   
  
  

  ESA Inaugural Diversity Forum at 2018 Annual Meeting

Understanding Anti-Racism

• Defining Anti-Racism
• Fighting Hate and Bias Training by Acumen Academy
• The Science of Racism 
• Being Antiracist

Testimonies from the Community

• Telling the Story Straight: Black Feminist Intellectual Thought in Anthropology
• Uncomfortable conversations with a black man 
• It’s time to decolonize a syllabus 
• White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy
• Educational experiences of African American male students labeled with learning disabilities
• Who are we? Highlighting Nuances in Asian American Experiences in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Demographic Perspectives

• The Impacts of Racism and Bias on Black People Pursuing Careers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Proceedings of a Workshop (2020) NASEM
• The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn Ph.D.s
• Institutional Racism Is Our Way of Life
• Disrupting Implicit Racial Bias and Other Forms of Discrimination to Improve Access, Achievement, and Wellness for Students of Color
• The Many Ways Institutional Racism Kills Black People