The journey towards an inclusive green chemistry education community of practice by prioritizing diversity, equity, belonging, and respect for an open-access online platform

Contributors

Nimrat Obhi

Program Manager, GCTLC | Beyond Benign, Inc.

Jonathon Moir

Director, GCTLC

Andrea Oseolorun

Assistant Professor | Prairie View Agricultural & Mechanical University

Amy Cannon

Executive Director | Beyond Benign, Inc.

Image showing three cartoon workspaces connected through scaffolding, with text describing that a strong framework of diversity, equity, belonging, and respect was central to the creation of the GCTLC.

Summary

This article describes how the GCTLC Team and Leadership Committee used a framework of diversity, equity, belonging, and respect (DEBR) to design the GCTLC to be an inclusive community of practice for green chemistry educators. We show how we intentionally interweave DEBR across all parts of the site and our internal programming to better enable a strong sense of belonging for users who join the GCTLC community.

This article is published as part of the Special Issue on Gender, Diversity, Inclusion and Chemistry in the journal Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy.

Keywords

Equity

Diversity, Equity, Belonging and Respect (DEBR)

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