Enabling Community Engagement and DEI in Physics

Current Particle Physics experiments are operated by hundreds of international collaborators and serve as big drivers of frontier science and human knowledge. They provide a fertile ground to train next generation of scientists. Communication, collaboration, and commitment are foundational to these endeavors. While we invest in science, it is equally imperative that we integrate in our scientific mission, community engagement, diversity and inclusivity, and increase participation and contribution from underrepresented and marginalized populations of our society. This task is challenging given that these collaborations comprise of several institutions from many countries with varied priorities and cultural backgrounds. Experiments and communities around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN are examples of such collaborations that are leading some of these efforts in physics. The talk will describe such efforts by the US based LHC community from the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS).