STEMM Diversity @ McGill is a student-driven initiative at the Redpath Museum to promote diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Medicine. The initiative exists primarily as an online exhibit (http://stemmdiversity.com/) and a colouring/activity book. STEMM Diversity @ McGill was founded with the goal of promoting greater diversity in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine at McGill University and beyond. We strongly believe in the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (EDI) and we are committed to helping improve access and retention of diverse and under-represented peoples within these fields. As a primarily student-driven initiative, we bring forward student perspectives and concerns regarding diversity issues, particularly within the McGill environment. We aim to empower underrepresented voices and, in doing so, hopefully contribute to a more inclusive STEMM culture. The online exhibit centers around interviews of diverse students and faculty about their personal experiences and opinions relating to the roles of gender and ethnicity in STEMM. These interviews were conducted by students and staff at the Redpath Museum in collaboration with TVM: Student Television at McGill. The STEMM Diversity @ McGill Colouring and Activity Book has received great reviews wherever we have sent it. Its reach has expanded past the McGill community to elementary schools in Quebec and Ontario, the NSERC Gender Summit, after school programs such as McGill’s Student-Parent Lunch and Learn and Homework Zone, and McGill’s series of Mini-Science lectures For our efforts, Jessica Ford and I were presented with McGill's 2018 Award for Equity and Community Building. We were also finalists at Forces AVENIR and received special recognition in McGill's Principal’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media. |