Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Resource Center
Service is at the heart of the LPI’s mission. As we support and serve members of our diverse planetary science community, we want to assure you that we take seriously our responsibility to provide and promote an inclusive, open, safe, accessible, and respectful environment in which we can all work together to achieve our dreams in space exploration and research. To illustrate our commitment and build upon our culture of service, we are focusing on actions to promote Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) at the LPI, consistent with USRA’s commitment, and within our community.
Actions We’re Taking
- Listening to and learning from our community to identify and address biases, racism, and exclusionary practices; support underrepresented groups; and promote accessibility
- Assessing our practices to remove barriers to inclusion at the LPI and throughout our professional sphere, including expanding and updating the current Code of Conduct.
- Strengthening our own internal training in these areas through Braving Diversity seminars, learning from our peers, and bringing in IDEA experts to expand our understanding through invited speakers, seminars, and discussions
- Making changes to the USRA meeting portal to ensure that our use of your identity (e.g., names and personal gender pronouns) is inclusive, respectful, and consistent with our IDEA policy and best practices
- Creating an independent advisory committee to examine our past practices and guide us to improve our support of the community going forward
- Fostering new community workshops and discussions on IDEA topics (e.g., working closely with other NASA-sponsored working groups and scientific and technical professional societies) to promote best practices in inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in the planetary sciences
We invite you to refer to this page often for periodic updates on actions we are taking at the LPI to improve our practices and culture to ensure inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in our many internal and external activities. Please help us realize our IDEA goals by sending your feedback, suggestions, and ideas to the advisory committee leadership at [email protected].
Resources
