Design: Microbiology Leaders Evolving & Accountable to Progress

美国微生物学会（ASM）的微生物学领导者不断发展和对进步负责（mBio LEAP）项目旨在支持和提升包容性多样性与公平，获取和问责制（IDEAA）。IDEAA是ASM对多样性、公平性和包容性（DEI）的整体方法。mBio LEAP项目旨在提升IDEAA在微生物科学和更广泛的科学，技术，工程和数学社区（STEM）中的地位，并将补充ASM现有的计划，如未来领导者导师奖学金（FLMF）和少数民族科学家年度生物医学研究会议（ABRCMS）。FLMF和ABRCMS致力于授权和指导来自历史上代表性不足的群体的科学家，而mBio LEAP将授权微生物科学领域的领导者影响各自部门和组织的文化和气候。mBio LEAP项目旨在教育和培训IDEAA的领导者，提高他们推动变革的技能和能力。通过关注领导者，mBio LEAP将增加组织变革的潜力，并在ASM和整个微生物科学领域体现IDEAA原则。mBio LEAP项目将通过以下方式与领导者合作：（1）促进深刻的个人反省，（2）促进同行群体交流，（3）提供参与者实践知识和技能的空间，以确保培训超越意识到行动。该项目的目标是扩大跨文化意识，改变做法，并鼓励和激励微生物学领导人接受和促进IDEAA。该项目将采用领导人培训模式，为长期可持续性和参与IDEAA提供一个结构，通过互动的同行小组形式与领导人建立联系，以培养知识和理解。ToL计划将努力提高参与者对IDEAA的认识和理解，制定将IDEAA纳入STEM的最佳实践，并在微生物科学中推广IDEAA。该项目的三个目标是（1）设计和开发IDEAA ToL计划和课程，（2）招募参与者并试点ToL计划和课程，以及（3）使用混合方法设计修改IDEAA ToL计划和课程资源。该项目的设计阶段将为一个全面的、数据驱动的、可扩展的ToL计划提供课程和资源，使参与的领导者能够成为IDEAA的变革推动者。该计划的资源将是开源的，并在微生物学和STEM社区内传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The American Society for Microbiology’s (ASM’s) Microbiology Leaders Evolving and Accountable to Progress (mBio LEAP) project is designed to support and elevate inclusive diversity with equity, access, and accountability (IDEAA). IDEAA is ASM’s holistic approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The mBio LEAP project is meant to elevate IDEAA within the microbial sciences and across the broader science, technology, engineering, and mathematics community (STEM) and will complement ASM’s existing programs, such as the Future Leaders Mentoring Fellowship (FLMF) and the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS). While FLMF and ABRCMS work to empower and mentor scientists from historically underrepresented groups, mBio LEAP will empower leaders within the microbial sciences to influence the cultures and climates of their respective sectors and organizations. The mBio LEAP project seeks to educate and train leaders in IDEAA, increasing their skills and ability to drive change. By focusing on leaders, mBio LEAP will increase the potential for organizational change and the embodiment of IDEAA principles at ASM and across the microbial sciences.The mBio LEAP project will work with leaders by (1) promoting deep individual introspection, (2) facilitating peer group exchanges, and (3) providing a space where participants can practice knowledge and skills to ensure the training goes beyond awareness to action. The project goals are to expand intercultural awareness, transform practices, and encourage and inspire microbiology leaders to embrace and promote IDEAA. The project will use a training-of-leaders (ToL) model to provide a structure for long-term sustainability and engagement in IDEAA, connecting with leaders through an interactive, peer-group format to cultivate knowledge and understanding. The ToL program will strive to increase participants' awareness and understanding of IDEAA, develop best practices for integrating IDEAA in STEM, and promote IDEAA within the microbial sciences. The project’s three objectives are to (1) design and develop the IDEAA ToL program and curriculum, (2) recruit participants and pilot the ToL program and curriculum, and (3) revise the IDEAA ToL program and curriculum resources using a mixed-method design. The project’s design phase will produce a curriculum and resources for a comprehensive, data-driven, scalable ToL program that will enable the participating leaders to serve as IDEAA change agents. The program's resources will be open source and disseminated within the microbiology and STEM communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.