Energy Storage & Distributed Resources (ESDR)
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability (IDEA) Committee Mission Statement and Charter
Great science is achieved through diversity, inclusion, and equity. At our core, we believe in treating everyone with respect and dignity. Our goals are to ensure that our Division’s processes for hiring, discussing science, and developing proposals are fair, promote our core values, and allowing everyone a voice.
The ESDR IDEA committee was formed in August, 2020 to communicate and promote the principles of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability to the Division. To this end, we will inform the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division of resources that are available at the Lab and elsewhere, investigate and recommend best practices in hiring, management of personnel, administration, and research, as well as sponsor activities promoting IDEA. We will coordinate and harmonize our efforts with those of the ETA IDEA committee, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Office at LBNL, and analogous entities at the University of California at Berkeley campus.
Members of the committee shall be comprised of ESDR staff, and selected to ensure the broadest possible representation of the division. Each member will serve for two years, with an option to renew if desired. A chair, whose responsibility is to run the meetings, will serve a two-year term with no option to renew, and will not have voting privileges. Vacancies will be filled in a timely fashion, ideally, within two months. The committee will meet monthly. In the case where the chair is not available, he or she will select an alternative to carry out duties.
LBNL Resources
Berkeley Lab Inclusion Diversity Equity Accountability: diversity.lbl.gov
Becoming an "Upstander" information and training: https://ideas-in-action.lbl.gov/topics/upstander
Berkeley Lab Employee Resource Groups: berkeleylab-erg.lbl.gov/
Fundamental Rights | Affirmative Action | Impartial Investigations | Respectful Environment (FAIR) Office: https://fair.lbl.gov/
Lambda Alliance Employee Resource Groups: https://lambda.lbl.gov/
UC Berkeley Resources
UC Berkeley Division of Equity & Inclusion: diversity.berkeley.edu/
Other Resources
Harvard Business Review, "How to Be an Inclusive Leader Through a Crisis": hbr.org/2020/04/how-to-be-an-inclusive-leader-through-a-crisis
Nature, "If you can’t be kind in peer review, be neutral": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03394-y?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_Nature
Nature, "How LGBT+ scientists would like to be included and welcomed in STEM workplaces": www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02949-3
Events of Interest
MRS Ondemand Webinar Series, "Intersections of Underrepresentation in Materials Science and Engineering": https://mrs.digitellinc.com/mrs/sessions/32259/view (view the recording)
Recommended Readings and Resources on IDEA*
Boerner, Leigh Krietsch. Chemical and Engineering News. "Podcast: Chemists debate the value of name reactions in organic chemistry": https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/reaction-mechanisms/Podcast-Chemists-debate-value-name-reactions-in-organic-chemistry/98/web/2020/08.
Ehrler, Bruno, Eline M. Hutter, and Joseph J. Berry. 2021. The Complicated Morality of Named Inventions. ACS Energy Letters 6, 565-567. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.0c02657.
Berkeley Diversity. Anti-racism Resources: https://diversity.berkeley.edu/anti-racism-resources-0
Greater Good Science Center. Resources to Support Anti-Rascist Learning: https://ggie.berkeley.edu/school-challenges/anti-racist-resources-for-educators/?_ga=2.237947010.366685995.1610997680-1539857911.1598650412#tab__2
O'Neil, Cathy. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.
*The resources provided here are solely for informational and educational purposes. The ESDR IDEA committee does not advocate for a specific position on any of these topics.
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