The DRP at UIC is sponsered by the Department of MSCS and Symbols of Inclusion. While organized by graduate students, the program is suprivised by Dr. Brooke Shipley.
The DRP at UIC was co-founded by Michael Gintz and Nick Christo in Fall 2023 and modeled after the DRP at UT-Austin. The first DRP started at University of Chicago and was organized by Moon Duchin and Mark Behrens.
The DRP at UIC is funded by the Louise Hay Fund. Louise Hay became Head of the Math department here at UIC in 1979, at the time the only head of a major research university's mathematics department.
Another DRP resource has been the DRP Network.