{"id":4536,"date":"2016-06-09T19:45:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T02:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?page_id=4536"},"modified":"2022-02-11T19:48:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:48:34","slug":"ecological-richness-diverse-contributors-of-diverse-contributions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/biographies\/ecological-richness-diverse-contributors-of-diverse-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecological Richness: ecologists from underrepresented groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than two decades, ESA has been concerned about equity in its membership and has actively sought ways to increase participation by under-represented groups. In 1988, a committee was appointed to address this issue, and ESA still maintains a section on Diversity in Ecology<\/a> on its primary organizational website.
\nThe \u201cWomen and Minorities Committee\u201d became a standing committee of ESA in 1991; it was later renamed the Gender and Minority Affairs Committee. This committee and others, through workshops and surveys, developed a series of initiatives that have helped move ESA toward a membership that \u201creflects the gender and cultural diversity in the general population of the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n