About

Welcome to Yet Another Inclusion and Diversity Blog!

This is intended as a place to gather and discuss resources on diversity and inclusion in schools, the workplace, and society as a whole.

What are diversity and inclusion? What's the difference?

Broadly speaking, at least on this blog, the diversity of a group describes how varied members of the group are in terms of all sorts of dimensions, including but certainly not limited to race, creed, identity, background, and previous experience. Many organizations measure diversity quantitatively and report on it in numbers like "25% female" or "10% non-white."

In contrast, inclusion or inclusivity is the construction of a group culture "in which all people feel valued and respected and have access to the same opportunities" (From the Harvard Business Review's 2014 article Diversity is Useless Without Inclusivity).
Note: as moderators, we are willing to modify these definitions if other or better definitions are brought to our attention!

Why do we need yet another blog on the topic?

As you might have guessed from the name, there's no particular lack of blogs covering diversity, inclusion, and equity in today's world. Most, however, are specific to a company (for instance blogs.cisco.com/diversity, https://www.bloomberg.com/diversity-inclusion/blog/) or a school (depts.washington.edu/cedi/wp_cedi/, www.diversity.pitt.edu/). Other articles surface briefly in top scientific journals or newspapers, then fall slowly into relative obscurity. 

This blog's goal is to gather many resources (scientific articles, popular reports, case studies) on diversity and inclusion in one place, along with key takeaways. Hopefully this, along with solid organization, will allow people interested in diversity and inclusion to easily find what they're looking for and spend less time doing research and more time changing the world.

How can I contribute?

So glad you asked! There's lots of ways to contribute, and we appreciate all kinds of help!

• First and foremost, engage people around you in discussions on the importance of diversity and inclusion throughout education, the workplace, and society as a whole. And if you're willing, mention this collection of resources – the more, the merrier.
• Comment on existing resources: if you have expertise in an area and realize that a study that's shared here has an error or key limitation, highlight that in the comments on that study. If you take away different points from an article, mention them! This is meant to be a collaborative, inclusive effort, and that relies on having input from lots of different people.
• Contribute a resource: if you find a scientific article, writeup, or case study that you think should be up here, send an email to inclusiondiversityblog@gmail.com with the following items. A moderator will check out the email and either reply explaining what extra information we'd like or post it to the blog under the name you've requested. We will try to get things up quickly, but can't make strong promises. If your resource isn't up in 3-7 days, please feel free to reply to your original email and ping us.
1. A subject of "New Post: " followed by the title of the resource you're recommending
2. The name under which you'd like to post: whether your name or a pseudonym is up to you, but we ask that you use a name that hasn't been used by anyone but you on the blog in the past
3. A link to the relevant resource
4. A set of takeaways you got from the article. Bonus points for linking to other posts with similar takeaways or elaborating on new findings.
5. A list of tags you think should be applied (more on that later)
• Become a regular contributor: if you've contributed more than a couple resources, the moderators may reach out to you and invite you to become an additional author