The National Mentoring Community

Co-presenters: Simone Hyater-Adams (APS), Nadya Mason (UIUC), Daniel Salazar-Gallegos (MSU). The APS National Mentoring Community (NMC), formed in 2015, facilitates mentor/mentee relationships in underrepresented groups by connecting African American, Hispanic American, and Indigenous undergraduate physics students with local physicists. NMC's mentoring includes dialogue about career planning and racial discrimination through our mentor/mentee relationships and NMC annual mentoring conference. This panel will provide student, faculty, and APS staff perspectives on the NMC. We share our experiences with NMC and the vision for how it contributes to developing a more inclusive and equitable physics community.