Membership

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 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.

As a Latinamerican scientist and professor, I have found much bias to work in the neuroscience field, I'm convinced that we should reduce the differences and share our experience.

Alba provides a platform to connect female researchers, and I want to support, mentor and give helpful advice to other women in this process!

I am passionate about working toward improving representation of women and underrepresented groups in science. I have been involved in addressing this at the undergrad, grad, postdoc and faculty levels. I am very keen to expand my involvement globally and working with ALBA will bring exciting opportunities. Also I should mention that I have dual citizenship UK and USA, and have many connections in europe. I am the past president of SfN and so am also keen to foster a closer collaboration between SfN and ALBA.

I would love to contribute to impactful activities about diversity, on every level and would love to inspire the new generations to become more aware and active about these fundamental topics.

I'd like to support Alba's mission

Concuerdo totalmente con la misión que ALBA propone.

I was very excited to attend the Alba network at the IBRO 2019 meeting. I certainly want to be part of this and collaborate for a more diverse science and education.

Neuroscience needs diversity, and ALBA is a great initiative towards that goal.

I have been involved in a Webinar by Rohini Kunher. I wish to get to know ALBA's initiatives and pro-actively support them.

I agree entirely with the ALBA declaration on equity and inclusion. I firmly believe that diversity is a value and that gender equality is far from being achieved (in the scientific community and society).

I am aware of how fortunate I am to have a career as a neuroscientist, and of how many more obstacles others have had to contend with. I want others to have fair opportunities and for structural discriminations to be removed; history shows us that this progress can happen but won’t do so on its own.

I consider equal opportunities should be a priority in brain sciences, in science in general, and global society.
I sincerely appreciate this initiative and would like to give a contribution.