We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker this year is Dr. Raychelle Burks, a nationally recognized scientific communicator and associate professor of analytical chemistry at American University. We will also host panel discussions with Stanford Graduate Students and Postdocs to share their experience of academic life. A key objective this year is to provide cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural interactions between diverse trainees to enable undergraduates, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students to share, learn about, and improve the experiences of currently underrepresented members of the academy. This is also an opportunity for undergraduate students to learn more about the process of navigating academia from peers at graduate and postgraduate career stages.

The virtual event will take place April 13th: 9:30am - 12:00pm PT / 12:30pm - 3:00pm ET and April 14th: 11:00am - 1:20pm PT / 2:00pm - 4:30pm ET, starting with the keynote and then moving into panel discussions and breakout rooms on topics related to diversity, equity, inclusion and academic life. We encourage everyone to register here by April 1st. All registrants will be invited to the Keynote webinar on April 13th, which will be opened to the wider community. In the event that we reach our participant limit for the interactive student focused sessions, registrants for those sessions will be drawn by lottery.