Conference: Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech: A Meeting Series to Develop a Systemic Action Plan

美国国家科学院（National Academy of Sciences）将为科技行业、学术界、非营利组织和政府组织一个三次会议的系列研讨会，让他们聚集在一起，进行持续的对话，为当前和未来的有色人种女性提供信息和催化系统行动，以支持科技行业。扩大对科技行业的参与是国家的当务之急，不仅因为这关乎社会公平和有利于创新，还因为关键的劳动力市场需求。有色人种女性在科技教育和职业生涯中的代表性不足，多年的研究表明，自认为是非裔美国人、黑人、西班牙裔、拉丁裔、美洲印第安人、亚裔美国人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民或其他太平洋岛民的女性在科技教育和职业生涯中面临着一系列结构性和社会障碍。该系列会议最终将制定一份由与会者共同设计的系统行动图，以指导动态的系统变革战略。这个三次会议系列将汇集学术界、工业界、政府和技术领域的非营利组织的一系列利益相关者，共同制定一个系统的行动地图，这将成为更广泛的科技生态系统的资源，以支持跨领域性别平等的努力，支持科技领域的有色人种女性。本次会议系列的独特之处在于，它专注于创建一个社区构建的资源，以指导针对科技领域有色人种女性的系统方法。这项工作由2022年国家科学院、工程院、该地图将作为一种资源，直观地显示系统中哪些地方有中断的机会，这些机会可以作为变革的杠杆，并确定抑制反馈回路，这些反馈回路一直在破坏政策、实践和努力，这些政策、实践和努力试图支持科技行业更大的多样性、公平性和包容性，但却未能有意义地这样做。在三次系列会议结束时，将作为公共资源提供系统性行动图以及解释该图及其创建过程的相关报告。该地图将指导制定实施计划。这一努力最终将揭示技术领域的利益相关者可以酌情共同或单独工作的方式，以利用从绘图过程中产生的关键见解推进行动。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 National Academy of Sciences will organize a three-meeting workshop series for tech industry, academia, non-profit organizations, and goverment to come together and engage in a sustained dialogue to inform and catalyze systemic action to support current and future women of color in tech. Broadening participation in technology is a national imperative, not only because it is a matter of societal equity and beneficial to innovation, but also because of critical labor market needs. Women of color are underrepresented in tech education, and careers and many years of research has documented that women who identify as African American, Black, Hispanic, Latina, American Indian, Asian American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or of other Pacific Islander face a range of structural and social barriers in tech education and careers. The meeting series will culminate in the development of a systemic action map, co-designed by the participants, that will guide a dynamic systems-change strategy.This three-meeting series will bring together a range of stakeholders across academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations in tech to work together to develop a systemic action map, which will serve as a resource to the broader tech ecosystem in supporting efforts at intersectional gender equity in support of women of color in tech. This meeting series is distinctive in its focus on the creation of a community-built resource to guide a systemic approach that is specific to women of color in tech. The effort is guided by the 2022 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine consensus study report Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech. The map will serve as a resource that will visually show where there are opportunities for disruption in the system that can serve as levers for change, as well as identify inhibiting feedback loops that consistently undermine policies, practices, and efforts that seek to support greater diversity, equity, and inclusion in tech but fail to do so meaningfully. At the culmination of the three-meeting series, the systemic action map, and associated report that explains the map and the process for its creation, will be made available as a public resource. The map will guide the development of an implementation plan. This effort will ultimately reveal ways in which stakeholders across tech can work together, or separately, as appropriate, to advance action with the key insights that emerged from the mapping process.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.