
ALT 2030STEM partners with leaders and organizations to advance the career and leadership pathways for underrepresented early and midcareer STEM researchers and professionals, and to advance systemic changes in STEM across institutions of academia, industry and policy. To help achieve its goals, 2030STEM uses a wide-reaching, community driven Champions and Fellowship network, a convening, and a process to identify and scale institutional cultural changes that will sustain an inclusive STEM enterprise.

ALT We’re so excited to announce @zandithemermaid as our next Keynote Speaker of BIMS Week 2023. She is South Africa’s first Black Female Freediving Instructor, and the founder of The Black Mermaid Foundation, an organization focused on creating diverse representation in the Ocean Arena, her work centres around enabling access to Ocean spaces to local ocean facing communities in hope to diversify Ocean spaces recreationally, professionally and in sport, while creating a new generation of Ocean guardians. Photo of Zandile Ndhlovu.

ALT An advertisement that reads: Field Inclusive Anniversary Webinar! August 23, 2023 at 2PM ET. Meet out Speaker Alex Troutman: Fish and Wildlife Biologist and Environmental educator. Holds a Bachelor’s of Biology and Master’s Degree with a focus in Conservation Biology and wetland sciences from Georgia Southern University. Strives to make sure that nature is accessible to all, and that includes not only having access to areas but ensuring that access is equitable where all can work in, visit, and enjoy nature. Register: go.ncsu.edu/anniversary A Photo of Alex Troutman to the right shows him smiling and in a creek carrying out surveys.































