The Identity and Empowerment in Science workshop was created through a collaboration between students and faculty in the Systems Biology PhD program at Harvard Medical School. The student authors include Caleb Weinreb, Daphne Sun and Qiu Chang Wu with contributions from Abigail Plummer (physics) to an early draft. The primary faculty collaborators were Angela DePace and Galit Lahav. Bruce Birren and Elizabeth Pomerantz also made important contributions.