Since the 2020 social justice uprisings, some community/citizen science practitioners & researchers have been re-engineering their work to make it explicitly anti-racist. The #ShutdownSTEM event during our 2020 NASA workshop series revealed broad interest within the NASA community to learn and respond more effectively to social justice issues. In this workshop event, we will dig into the following questions: How do anti-racist perspectives and strategies relate to NASA's citizen science projects? What internal and external practices have citizen science leaders been employing to increase diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion in their projects? How can we begin or continue to apply these practices to the work we do?

Speakers: Lila Higgins and Miguel Ordeñana, co-leads of Community Science at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Co-Sponsored by the Citizen Science Association.

Please read before workshop:

Ten Simple Rules for Building an Anti-racist Lab

Additional reading and resources:

White Supremacy Culture Characteristics 

NHMLA Community Science Anti-racist Pledge