The importance of career development resources for Black, Native/Indigenous, Women+ of Color in STEM

The Women+ of Color Project (W+OCP) was born out of the need to see more Black, Native/Indigenous, Latina/x women+ in academia -- especially in STEM fields like math, physics, materials science, planetary science, and others. We hope that this effort will begin to change the graduate applicant pool across the United States, thus changing the graduate student population, increasing the number of W+OC PhD's, and ultimately increasing the number of W+OC who pursue academic careers, changing the face of academia across the world.