Sowing Solidarity: Crafting Diversity Statements to Live By

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Using a guide self-reflection activity, we will explore strategies for describing and highlighting your efforts in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Resources for writing Diversity Statements.

This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Black Postdoc Association and is part of a series of workshops. Other workshops are:

• Blame It On Your Juice!: Approaches to Defying Imposter Syndrome – April 15 @ noon-1 pm
• Grant Transformers: Unmasking Your “Job Documents in Disguise” – April 22 @ noon-1 pm

Join all activities or only one! Attend at least one workshops to receive an entry into a raffle for a random drawing for 5 (five) winners, which will receive a Stanford T-shirt or other swag from the Stanford Bookstore (up to $35 value each). Opened only to trainees (graduate students, postdocs, clinical fellows, etc.).

Speakers: 

Debra (Deb) Karhson, Ph.D., is the Grant Writing Academy’s Assistant Director for JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) initiatives and a Basic Life Research Scientist in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department in the Autism and Developmental Disorders Research Program. Deb’s deep love of research was a strong catalyst for her enthusiasm for grantsmanship, particularly for support mechanisms dedicated to diversifying the research workforce. With her extensive experience in diversity-related grants, Deb will provide strategic support and advice for trainees interested in the new series of NIH K-awards and other equity-based grants.

Shaila Kotadia, Ph.D., is the Director of Culture and Inclusion for the School of Medicine where she focuses on the integration of diversity and inclusion activities across all constituencies from students through faculty and implements school-wide diversity and inclusion strategy and planning. Dr. Kotadia received her undergraduate degree in Cell and Structural Biology with minors in Geography and Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign followed by a Ph.D. in Genetics and Development from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Her postdoctoral work at the University of California, Santa Cruz focused on cell division and chromosome segregation. Prior to starting at Stanford, Dr. Kotadia led the STEM Equity & Inclusion Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley where she conducted an institutional assessment of STEM diversity programs and advanced partnerships in equity, inclusion, and diversity to ensure student and research success in STEM academic units. She also serves as an independent consultant for diversity, equity, and inclusion.