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I am happy to be serving on the ChemE DEI Committee as one of two postdoc representatives. Since arriving at MIT last year I have helped to restart the Postdoc Association’s (PDA) DE&I Committee, and am serving as the chair of that committee. I look forward to helping connect our department with postdocs around the Institute and advancing DE&I for postdocs in ChemE at MIT.
Within the PDA, we have been working to connect postdocs working on DE&I in different departments and working on a number of institute-wide initiatives. We run DE&I focused book and journal clubs, we are working to start a postdoc application support program similar to ChAMP (though starting MIT-wide) and working to start a pathways program where experienced postdocs could help guide new postdocs around the institute, and much more. Recently, we published a report seeking to examine the equity and inclusivity of postdoc hiring at MIT that can be found on our website here. This report represents a first effort to understand how postdocs are hired and recruited around the institute, and we hope will provide a stepping stone to future studies and improved practices.
If you have thoughts on DE&I for postdocs I would be happy to hear from you, and we invite all postdocs to join the PDA’s DE&I Committee.
Kyle Diederichsen
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