Membership

I want to be part of a community that has goals that I am inspired by as their goals

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 like to be in contact with research networks and neuroscience associations

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

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.

Discovered the network at FENS, then on social media

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.

I believe that the neurosciences are better off when they become fairer and more diverse. And that we can only make this happen by working together and supporting each other.

I am actively working on behalf of women in science in Poland through initiative Women in Science at Nencki. My goal is to create supportive environment for minorities and women in science in my country. Having access to ALBA Network resources could help me to achieve it.

To contribute in the dissemination of the positive outcome of multicultural environments, diversity and inclusion. Learn effective was to implement it in a cohort / international level.

I found this organization interesting, as I believe there is still a long way to go until neuroscience can finally say that it represents all groups of humans not only as study subjects but also as thinkers and idea generators.