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AURA Committee on Workforce and Diversity
     
AURA Diversity Advocates
 

AURA has established at each of its managed centers a Diversity Advocate reporting to the Director.  This person will be involved in both Human Relations and outreach and educational activities to focus on workforce development. We envision that this person will encourage inclusion of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in candidate pools and will coordinate other activities that have potential to broaden participation.
 

Neil Barker - Gemini
 

Sheryl Bruff - STScI
 

Katy Garmany - NOAO
 

Mark Giampapa - NSO
 

Dara Norman - NOAO
 

ACTION PLAN

The following document lays out AURA’s strategic plan for broadening participation in all of our activities. AURA has had a strong commitment to broadening participation since its establishment over 50 years ago. This has been a fundamental part of making the public astronomy enterprise successful. This Plan describes actions currently under way and those we will accomplish in the future to do more to achieve our goals for broadening participation.
 
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