Diversity

Our Mission:

To promote diversity in the NWA, across the weather enterprise, and among operational meteorologists. To this end, the Committee shall strive to promote a high standard of professional and personal ethics in order to ensure inclusion for individuals, regardless of sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, gender orientation, and physical or mental disability.


ARTICLES:

https://onlinelearningtips.com/2020/06/8-actionable-steps-race-relations-us/

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.20200720a/full/

https://leanin.org/black-women-racism-discrimination-at-work?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklywrap

https://nationalresourcenetwork.org/city_sights/ending-systemic-racism/

https://www.hracuity.com/blog/ending-systemic-racism?hs_amp=true

YouTube Videos:
Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Man
A conversation with Emmanuel Acho about race that many white people have never been able to have.
https://uncomfortableconvos.com/

Ted Talks:
Amy Hunter's Lucky ZipCodes

Organizations of Interest:
https://us.gsk.com/en-us/about-us/us-community-partnerships/philadelphia-stem-equity-collective/

Movies/Documentaries:
When the Levees Broke, Spike Lee
Can We Talk? Difficult Conversations with Underrepresented People of Color: Sense of Belonging and Obstacles to STEM Field A Film by Kendall Moore

Black Lives Matter History:
https://blacklivesmatter.com/herstory/

Podcast List:
NPR's CodeSwitch "Scene on Radio - Seeing White"
"Nice White Parents"

Thread on sports and social justice:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CEkY16DjHeB/

Book Recommendations:
"The Heritage" by Howard Bryant
"So You Want to Talk about Race" by Ijeoma Oluo
"Slavery by Another Name" by Douglas Blackmon
“Cast: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson
“White Rage” by Carol Anderson
"Stamped" by Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi
"How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram Kendi
"White Fragility - Why It's so hard for white people to talk about racism" by Robin DiAngelo
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria" by Beverly Tatum
"What Truth Sounds Like" Michael Eric Dyson
"Dying of Whitness" by Jonathan Metzl
"The Beauty in Breaking" by Michele Harper


Training Portal and Diversity Resource List

General Resource List

U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management Disability Resources

Autism

Courses offered by the Autism Society of America
Autism Internet Modules created by the Educational Services Center of Central Ohio in conjunction with Ashland University

NWA Newsletter articles
A Prelude to ''Putting Science into Service''

Questions, comments, feedback, and concerns for the Diversity Committee should be directed to Jennifer Hogan.

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