Held annually, the Leadership Meeting is an opportunity for people involved with all facets of SEEDS to engage in a dialogue. The meeting provides a venue for SEEDS participants to discuss their involvement with the program as it relates to their career, academic and personal development. These discussions help define how the program can further its mission of diversifying the field of ecology.
SEEDS of a New Millennium - Commentary on the 2006 Leadership Meeting, ESA Bulletin, July 2006
Ideas that each of us nurtured in private seemed to blossom when we shared them at a recent leadership workshop held in Phoenix, Arizona by the Strategies for Ecology, Education, Development and Sustainability (SEEDS) Program. We are 12 young scientists, representing three cohorts of the Ecological Society of America's SEEDS Program, who have been awarded Undergraduate Research Fellowships in 2004-2007. We were chosen from America's minority and immigrant populations. Some of us represent Native Americans, including Hawai'ans and the Lakota, Mandan, Hidasta, and Arikara Nations. Some of our parents or we ourselves come from other countries, including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Peru, Africa, and China. More than a nod to political correctness and affirmative action, we embody the diversity that ESA seeks, a diversity that is necessary for the advancement fo science and society. Complete article
