Updates on APS-IDEA: Facilitating Community Transformation

The APS Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity Alliance (APS-IDEA) is one of the largest DEIA organizations serving the physics community. Established at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, APS-IDEA had to restructure its programming early to meet our community where they are. In the past 2 years, we have continued to adapt in response to feedback from network-wide surveys. Our goal is to provide networking opportunities with both DEI-engaged physicists and DEI professionals so that Teams of physicists gain insights and information applicable to their own department in order to enact profound and lasting change. We've modified our curriculum, our meeting styles, and our funding structure, but we have retained our commitment to a theory of change that emphasizes genuine understanding of the sociological concepts that underlie effective organizational change and DEI.