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We are an online community of women of color and nonbinary people of color in ecology, evolutionary biology, and allied environmental fields (find us on social media with #WOCinEEB). 

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We began in 2020 when a like-minded group of women of color came together to create a Slack community as a way to connect. Many of us found each other on #ScienceTwitter and recognized a need for an online community to help combat isolation we often felt as “the only” in our academic departments. The Covid-19 pandemic, global movements for racial justice, and shifting political climate only intensified the need for community.
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Over the next few years, WOCinEEB founders put together a list of WOC in EEB seminar speakers to help diversify EEB conferences and piloted two mentoring programs: a 1-on-1 Mentoring Program and a Peer Mentoring Program to enable our community members to support each other. In 2023, we received NSF funding to support our first in-person Networks of Success Conference!
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We hope to continue expanding our programs and supporting WOC in EEB.

Meet our Advisory Board and Mentoring Committee below!
 
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​2021 Advisory Board Members
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​V. Bala Chaudhary, PhD (she/her)

WOCinEEB Founder
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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​Lily Khadempour, PhD (she/her)
Mentoring Program Director
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
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​Erika Díaz-Almeyda, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
New College of Florida, FL, USA
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Swanne Gordon, PhD (she/her)
Assistant Professor of Biology
Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA
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N. Niloufar Kashi
PhD Candidate
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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Zoë Lindo, PhD
Professor of Biology
Western University, Canada
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Ariane L. Peralta, PhD (she/her)
Associate Professor of Biology
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
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Adriana L. Romero-Olivares, PhD (she/her)
Assistant Professor of Biology
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA
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Brenda María Soler-Figueroa, Ph.D. (she/her)
Research Scientist
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
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Nikki Traylor-Knowles, PhD

Assistant Professor of Marine Biology and Ecology
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Founder, President & CFO of Black Women in Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Science (BWEEMS)
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Athmaja Viswanath (she/her)
PhD Student
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Chhaya M. Werner, PhD (she/her)
Postdoctoral Associate
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
 

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​2023 Mentoring Committee

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Lily Khadempour, PhD (she/her)Mentoring Program Director
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
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Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler (she/ella)
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Humboldt State University
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Ishwora Dhungana (she/her)
PhD student
Soil Microbial Ecology Lab
University of Hawai'i, Mānoa
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Erika Diaz Almeyda (she/her)
Assistant Professor
Biology and Environmental Studies
New College of Florida
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Neha Mohanbabu, PhD (she/her)
Postdoctoral Associate
University of Minnesota
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Karena Nguyen, PhD (she/her)
Assistant Director for Postdoctoral Services
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Adriana L. Romero-Olivares, PhD (she/her)
Assistant Professor
New Mexico State University
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​​Christine Sit

Mentoring Program Assistant
​EPA Administrative and Science Communications Associate
​Oak Ridge Associated Universities
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