{"id":89,"date":"2022-03-17T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2021\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2022-06-14T20:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:25:25","slug":"building-an-inclusive-society","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2021\/building-an-inclusive-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Building an Inclusive Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ESA worked to build both a more inclusive society and a more diverse science of ecology in 2021. We celebrated our historical successes while simultaneously making strides in the present and looking ahead to new ways to make ESA a place for all ecologists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

In celebration of the 25th year of our flagship undergraduate diversity program, SEEDS<\/a>, we launched multiple highly successful fundraising campaigns to support the Henry L. Gholz SEEDS Field Trip Endowment<\/a>. Vicki Moore once again pledged $25,000 if the ESA membership could step up and match it. We did and then some, ultimately crossing the halfway mark in our goal to how $400,000 in the endowment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regular SEEDS business picked up as well, with five new chapters being launched \u2014 at the University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Auburn University of Montgomery, Elmhurst University and Temple University<\/strong> \u2014 and two dozen SEEDS leaders were able to take part in a virtual workshop. We deepened our relationship with Indigenous communities thanks to the work of our Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section, which launched a webinar series on TEK<\/a>, its applications and how ecologists can approach Indigenous communities and science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And beyond those programs, we took a look to the future, forming strategic relationships with other societies to pursue grant-funded programs that would improve our mutual abilities to support underrepresented people in their career aspirations as well as the work of our organizations. Most notably, we were given at $250,000 subaward from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society in their program to drive change in among bioscience societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESA worked to build both a more inclusive society and a more diverse science of ecology in 2021. We celebrated our historical successes while simultaneously making strides in the present and looking ahead to new ways to make ESA a place for all ecologists. In celebration of the 25th year of our flagship undergraduate diversity program, SEEDS, we launched multiple…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}