Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We strive to create a lab that values and fully includes individuals from diverse backgrounds, identities, beliefs, values, perspective, experiences, and ideas. This lab is committed to creating a trusting and collaborative environment where diversity will be respected including differences in race, religion, class, sexual orientation, gender and gender-identity, age, body-type, disability, and psychological struggle. We seek to recruit, train, and support individuals from diverse backgrounds and those from historically underrepresented groups. Research even suggests that diverse labs can be more successful. It is our duty as scientists to provide an inclusive environment that respects and represents the world in which we study and hope to provide possible interventions for. This is a collaborative, open, and iterative process where we are continuously trying to obtain this inclusive goal within our lab. We acknowledge that we will make mistakes, as we all do, but we must learn and take corrective actions.