Towards a More Inclusive Astronomy (TaMIA): Centering Diversity and Inclusion: Conversations on Marginalized Lived Experiences

During this (slide-less) edition of Conversations on Inclusion and Equity, I will model TaMIA's version of these conversations and our approach for addressing issues in inclusion and equity. TaMIA, or Towards a More Inclusive Astronomy, is a discussion group started by Mallory Molina at Penn State in 2016, with current co-leaders Angie Wolfgang, Caleb Cañas, and Jonathan Jackson. We began as a grassroots effort to introduce intersectional discussions about equity and inclusion in our department, highlighting the importance of the experiences of those with marginalized identities. During this event, I will take the participants through the typical structure of a meeting while talking about TaMIA's goals, philosophy, how and why we started, as well as some lessons learned.

About the Presenter
Angie Wolfgang is a National Science Foundation Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Penn State doing research in exoplanet demographics and population-based astrostatistics, and is co-leader for the Towards a More Inclusive Astronomy discussion group at Penn State. For more about Angie’s scientific contributions, visit https://sites.psu.edu/awolfgang/; for more about TaMIA, visit http://www.tamiastronomy.org/.