Our team has been working together since 2016 to foster more inclusive lab environments with a focus on biotechnology community college student interns. We began with creation of a comprehensive training program for internship mentors who wish to counter inequities in the lab. 

With our first NSF Advanced Technology Education (ATE) grant (2018-2021, DUE #1801186, 1800998) we:

• Further improved our mentor training which, to date, has trained 500+ research scientists in tools to operationalize inclusivity in the lab.

• Developed a parallel training for community college students to navigate barriers to inclusivity in the workplace, in which 100+ biotechnology community college students have participated. 

• Published a framework for inclusive bioscience workplace practices in academic labs.

• Created a novel CCSF-UCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellows program, in which UCSF internship research mentors are coached as they apply inclusive workplace practices while mentoring CCSF interns.

Our New Grant (2021-2024, DUE #2055735, 2055309) will: 

• Translate our trainings for biotechnology community college students and mentor-managers from an academia to an industry setting and online platforms

• Disseminate those trainings nationwide to community college students and biotech/bioscience mentor-managers through online platforms to foster the knowledge & skills needed to operationalize inclusivity and reduce barriers for community college students in the biotech workplace.