Membership

I believe the scope and vision that ALBA transcend is in match with my goal and own vision for science and neuroscience. I appreciate the effort that scientist make to connect and exchange for the greater good. It is a layer that is necessary for a more transparent and efficient science across word experts.

To help fighting inequities and discrimination in science, especially against women

After developing and working with BrainWaves (link attached), a program aimed at bringing hands on EEG research into the classroom, my passion for STEM outreach and equal opportunity in the foundational years in high school regardless of economic background has grown immensely. If we can cultivate interests in neuroscience at a young age, we may then finally be able to see a demographic change reflected in the professional world of research.

I am a member of the Steering Committee

It is time to move things on, and would like to give my active contribute as a scientist, not only as a mentor of young researchers

I would like to apply for Travel Awards, and be involved and stay updated in the neuroscience community.

As a Latino member of the neuroscience community, I would like to play my part on keep promoting diversity, inclusion and equity in research and academia, and also to involve our social communities in a way that results meaningful and respects their own diversity.

I am joining Alba as I have faced many challenges in my career thus far as an underrepresented trainee. In recent months, due to the US federal crackdown on "DEI" initiatives, I have not only been excluded from career- and life-changing funding opportunities, but also watched as the programs that allowed me to advance to this stage in my career are defunded and cancelled. I want to be a part of a network of scientists who similarly refuse to comply in advance, and are unafraid to organize independently against the forces attempting to re-segregate and censor scientific research.

I would like to be in contact with other researchers online.

I like to be in contact with research networks and neuroscience associations

An opportunity to network in the field of brain sciences and promote diversity in research.

I am a white woman married to an Afro-Carribean man. We have an adopted bi-racial daughter and are part of a blended family with her 4 other sisters, their adoptive parents, and her birth mom. I was raised by a linguist mother who surrounded me with individuals from all walks of life and from various cultures. I have always cared about diversity and been aware of multi-cultural issues. However, marrying and adopting into a blended, multi-cultural (race, country, faith) family to realize the importance of MY direct action. I have always thought that there was not much for me to teach in the Neuroscience classroom about diversity. Now, I realize how wrong, and lazy, this assumption was. I am now committed to integrating these issues into my teaching and research mentoring at my institution, a Primarily White, and Undergraduate, Institution.

In my role of DEI officer at the Zuckerman Brain Mind Behavior Institute at Columbia University, I am interested in connecting with practitioners in the field to learn best and next practices and advance equity in science.

As a member of the Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (DIC) of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), I have been consistently contributing to investigate and implement plans to ensure diversity in our neuroscience community, leading and being involved in several short- and long-term projects tied to our committee. I am currently serving as the 2023-2024 chair of the diversity and inclusivity committee of OHBM, and I think that joining ALBA network can help us to collaborate on our common goals and to create multiple opportunities to early career researchers with underrepresented and/or underprivileged backgrounds.