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Steering Team

The principal drafters of the Strategic Action Plan for Belonging, Achievement, and Composition was a steering team made up of members of MIT’s community and the Committee on Race and Diversity, a standing Institute committee that reports to the President.

Leadership

John Dozier
Institute Community and Equity Officer

Maryanne Kirkbride
Deputy Institute Community and Equity Officer and Executive Director of MindHandHeart

Tim Jamison
Associate Provost and Robert R. Taylor Professor of Chemistry

Faculty

John Fernández
Department of Architecture

Asegun Henry
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Markus Klute
Department of Physics

Ray Reagans
Sloan School of Management

Alex Shalek
Department of Chemistry

David Singer
Department of Political Science

Patricia Tang
Music and Theater Arts Section

Lily L. Tsai
Department of Political Science, Chair of the Faculty

Undergraduate Students

Yu Jing Chen
Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Orisa Coombs
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Zaina Moussa
Department of Biological Engineering

David Spicer
Department of Political Science

Graduate Students

Bianca Lepe
Department of Biological Engineering

Ufuoma Ovienmhada
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Kayla Storme
Department of Chemistry​

Catherine Wong
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Postdoctoral Fellows

Eeshan C. Bhatt
MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering​​

Nat Clarke
Department of Biology

Muchun Liu
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Staff

Alana Anderson
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Nandi Bynoe
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, School of Engineering

Ike Brochu
Assistant Director, Disability and Access Services

Gabriel Campos
Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Human Resources

Beatriz Cantada
Director of Engagement for Diversity and Inclusion, Institute Community and Equity Office

DiOnetta Jones Crayton
Associate Dean and Director, Office of Minority Education

Nina DeAgrela
Assistant Dean, Office of Intercultural Engagement

Kuheli Dutt
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, School of Science

Shirley A. Entzminger
Senior Co-Convener, Working Group for Support Staff

Chad Galts
Director of Communications, Institute Community and Equity Office

Alyce Johnson
Senior Advisor to the Vice President, Human Resources

Virginia Johnson
Co-lead, African, Black, American, Caribbean Employee Resource Group

Tracie Jones
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Kathleen Monagle
Associate Dean, Student Support and Wellbeing

Rachel Ornitz
Senior Administrative Assistant, Institute Community and Equity Office

Monica Orta
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, Belonging, and Student Support, School of Architecture and Planning

Jonathan Schwarz
Director of Institutional Research, Office of the Provost

Bryan Thomas Jr.
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, MIT Sloan School of Management

Noelle Wakefield
Assistant Dean of Graduate Diversity Initiatives, Office of Graduate Education