- Advisory Board (coordinators: Mariangela Lisanti and Marianne Bauer)
- Activities and Speakers (coordinator: Sabrina Pasterski) This group aims to organize department events centered on the topic of diversity and inclusion, to curate speakers to meet the needs of other working groups and, most importantly, to ensure a departmental commitment to diversity for non-EDI events with respect to invited speakers and public engagement. The group typically meets Tuesdays at 2:30pm.
- Broader Outreach (coordinator: Jason Puchalla) This group facilitates and helps organize bridging activities within our department and the broader community. The group maintains outreach and in-reach connections and advocates for building pathways between the physics department and the public. The group typically meets Thursdays 5-6pm every 3 to 4 weeks.
- Communication and Social Media (coordinator: Stephanie Kwan) The group publicizes and promotes EDI projects, events, findings, and initiatives, both internally to the department and externally. The group typically meets biweekly on Thursday at 2pm.
- Data Gathering (coordinator: Grace C. MacKenzie Smith) This group focuses on collecting and and presenting statistics relevant for the department. We are a resource to the other working groups in the EDI initiative and maintain ties to similar organizations in other departments. The group meets every 2-3 weeks. Day and time varies depending on everyone’s schedule. Email group coordinator: Grace C. MacKenzie Smith (gracecm@princeton.edu) if interested in joining.
- Graduate Student Recruitment (coordinator: Caroline Holmes) This group aims to make the graduate program more diverse and inclusive. With a program of outreach and professional development tailored to undergraduates, we hope to make the next cohort of graduate students our most diverse ever. The group meets on Fridays from 1-2pm.
- Undergraduate Recruitment (coordinator: Aurelien Fraisse) We strive to foster a welcoming and engaging undergraduate Physics experience that promotes diversity, provides all students, regardless of their ultimate majors, with the support and structure most conducive to academic success, and offers meaningful research opportunities across class years
External Events and Resources:
Cultural and Affinity Groups at Princeton(link is external)(link is external)
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) National Task Force to Elevate African American Representation in Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy (TEAM-UP(link is external)(link is external)) has spent the last two years investigating the reasons for the persistent underrepresentation of African Americans in physics and has released a report with its findings. In this report, TEAM-UP has uncovered long-term systemic issues within the physics and astronomy communities that contribute to the underrepresentation of African Americans in these fields and makes important, actionable recommendations for community wide efforts to reverse this trend.
The American Physical Society (APS) Board Statement on Racial Violence(link is external)(link is external): Physics flourishes best when physicists can work in an environment of safety, justice, and equity. Therefore, all of us must work vigorously against systemic racism and to overcome implicit biases. The Board of the American Physical Society believes that it is timely to reaffirm the importance of building a diverse and inclusive physics community, as expressed in the APS Joint Diversity Statement(link is external)(link is external) (Human Rights 08.2). The Board expresses deep concern over incidents of racially biased violence and threats of violence against people of color.
