Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity, Inclusion, and acceptance are prime objectives for AIAA.
In 2015, recognizing the importance of diversity and inclusion, the Institute Board of Directors, chartered the Diversity Working Group (DWG) as a long-term working group, reporting to the Board, to improve diversity and inclusion across the AIAA community.
The Diversity Working Group is organized as follows:
Outreach Subcommittee: Identifies and recommends academic, industry, government and nonprofit organizations with which AIAA should formulate strategic partnerships. They also collaborate with AIAA’s committees and groups to increase representation and participation of historically under-represented constituents.
Programming Subcommittee: Identifies and develops programs that will provide education, awareness, support and growth of diversity within AIAA.
Leadership, Growth and Retention Subcommittee: Identifies and develops opportunities that will foster leadership and growth opportunities for historically under-represented communities, both internal and external to AIAA.
Recognition Subcommittee: Identifies candidates who have made contributions to the advancement of diversity and inclusion and recommends the best way of recognizing their contributions.
If you are interested in helping to shape the future: Join here
Statement on Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion from AIAA Executive Director Dan Dumbacher
Diversity Scholars Program
The AIAA Diversity Scholars Program provides opportunities for underrepresented university students pursuing a degree in aerospace to attend an AIAA forum.
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Diversity Award
This award recognizes an individual or group within AIAA who has devoted time and effort and made significant contributions to the advancement of diversity and inclusion within the Institute.
Learn More | View Past Recipients
Local Section Grant
The DWG can support local AIAA Sections or Student Branches who want to hold events or programs that foster more diversity and inclusion within AIAA.
Section/Branch officers, submit this Diversity Event Grant Request.
Diversity Event Grant Request Guidelines
Resource List
This list was compiled by members of the AIAA community. Add the following: If you have any other resources you would like to share, please submit your ideas to diversitywg@aiaa.org.
- Dog Whistle Politics, by Ian Haney-López
- Waking Up White, by Debby Irving
- The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
- My Grandmother's Hands, by Resmaa Menakam
- Diversity at Work: The Practice of Inclusion, by Bernardo Ferdman
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will to Change, by Jennifer Brown
- Democracy in Black, by Eddy Glaude, Jr.
- White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo
- Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, by Frank H. Wu
- Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- White Rage, by Carol Anderson
- How Racism Takes Place, by George Lipsitz
- White Like Me, by Tim Wise
- Evicted, by Matthew Desmond
- Diversity at Work: The Practice of Inclusion, by Bernardo Ferdman
- Whistling Vivaldi, by Claude M. Steele
- The Difference, by Scott Page
- We Can’t Talk About that at Work, by Mary-Frances Winters
- How to Be and Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, by Austin Channing Brown
- So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
- Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by Mahzarin R Banaji
- Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, David Maxfield
Other Resources
Videos
Events
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Aerospace Community and Workforce – Part II (ASCENDxWebinar)
21 July 2020 1030 - 1200 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Virtual
Any shared vision of humanity’s future, whether on Earth or in outer space, must be grounded in the principals of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Join us. -
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Aerospace Community and Workforce – Part I (ASCENDxWebinar)
15 July 2020 1230 - 1345 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Virtual
Join us for an interactive panel discussion on institutional transformations that address challenges and provide opportunities for African Americans within the aerospace workforce pipeline.
Women at SciTech 2020
