Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Juneteenth and Father's Day Community Celebration

Juneteenth, also known as “Freedom Day,” “Emancipation Day” or “Jubilee,” is a commemorative holiday celebrated on June 19 to mark the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. 

In honor of this holiday, Scripps Oceanography is proudly sponsoring the upcoming Juneteenth and Father’s Day Community Celebration hosted by Paddle for Peace, an organization focused on diversifying…

A conversation with Erin Jackson, speedskating Olympic gold medalist and STEM advocate; Laurie Leshin, geochemist, space scientist and director of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and Natalia Molina, professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, award-winning author. Lynn Sherr, author and award-winning journalist, will moderate the discussion.

Join us for this month's lunch meet up! We will be meeting at IGPP 4301 to have lunch together and socialize. Bring your own lunch!

This is a group for queer-identifying students, staff, postdocs, researchers, faculty, and alumni at Scripps to connect, share resources, and be in community with each other. We host monthly informal meet-ups and plan events throughout the year.

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For Pride month, WMIS is partnering with Queer@Scripps to highlight a queer speaker for the monthly Growing Up in Science event. On June 2nd from 12:30-2:00pm we will meet in IGPP 4301 and learn about Dr. Wenyuan Fan’s personal journey through science and ask questions. This event is for students and postdocs only. We will have sandwiches from the Cheese Shop, please RSVP by 5/30 to ensure that you will get a sandwich!

 

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Working Moms of 0-5 Year Olds Group

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Please join us for a supportive discussion and an opportunity to connect with other UCSD remote working moms.  Open to all UC San Diego campus Faculty and Staff mothers of any age, partnered or single.

All parents are invited to join the…

Scripps Days of Learning

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In December 2020, the Scripps community sent a "Letter on Anti-Racism." One of the demands calls for the Scripps community to quarterly "Commit to days of learning," that should "involve individual learning, community seminars and events, and discussions to help foster a more well-read, broadly informed community of leaders that are equipped to engage with current and future intersectional and global environmental issues."

For our inaugural Days of Learning, Scripps Senior Leadership, the Scripps Community Engagement Fellows, and the Scripps Graduate Student Council have come…

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This class can help you learn about Social Security, including ways to maximize benefits under different scenarios and priorities (divorce, working, tax impact, other sources of retirement income, etc.). It also offers tools and resources available to help you look at different options and make the most of your benefit. Intended for: Employees who are thinking about Social Security and want to start planning their benefit claiming strategy.

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WMIS is in need of a new logo! Our current logo (see attached) has served its purpose, but the WMIS Leadership thinks a new logo will better reflect the amazing community that WMIS is! We are asking the WMIS & SIO community to help us design and choose a new logo. So, whip out those artistic skills of yours and submit a new logo design before May 22nd. The WMIS community will then be given the opportunity to choose their favorite logo design.

Join us for this month's lunch meet up! We will be meeting at Pawka Green to have lunch together and socialize. Bring your own lunch!

This is a group for queer-identifying students, staff, postdocs, researchers, faculty, and alumni at Scripps to connect, share resources, and be in community with each other. We host monthly informal meet-ups and plan events throughout the year.