URiM Spring Social
March 15, 2024
Community building opportunities such as the URiM Spring Event play a crucial role in supporting URiM trainees and faculty by fostering a sense of belonging, providing networking opportunities, and offering mentorship and support. This special Spring event coincided with Match Day whereby our psychiatry residency training program matched 50% URiM incoming residents, continuing our work towards diversifying our educational training program in the department. Overlooking the beautiful Bay, in a private setting of the restaurant, this was an incredibly fun event, filled with celebration whereby faculty and trainees of color connected with each other, sharing personal and work experiences, challenges, and aspirations—all of which can help combat feelings of isolation and minoritized stress.
Nourishment and Networking at T'chaka
March 15, 2024
Attendees discussed some of the challenges faced as Black women in the academy, including identifying and cultivating mentors and sponsors. They also shared their ongoing work and talked through specific strategies to address workplace challenges.
ARCHES 23 Cohort Dinner
March 12, 2024
The ARCHES 23 cohort met and discussed the shape of their ARCHES experience and support. They learned more about each other's research and discovered that though they're all doing very different research, there is both nuance and overlap in their experiences within academia.
Black Womxn Research Mixer Event 2
February 21, 2024
Black Womxn Researchers from several SOM Departments gathered at the Black Wellness Center at Mt. Zion. The group began strategic planning for the Innovation Research Hub composed of and led by Black Womxn Researchers at UCSF. The goal of this hub is to offer a range of impactful deliverables and activities designed to enhance collaboration, productivity, and community building for Black womxn researchers at all stages of the research pipeline.
Perioperative DEI Leadership Networking Event
January 24, 2024
This dinner networking event allowed DEI faculty leaders from anesthesia, surgery, orthopedic surgery, and ophthalmology to strategize upcoming DEI initiatives. This has helped tremendously with further collaboration as we are planning our next Joint-DEI Grand Rounds. These Grand Rounds have been well attended and well received. This event has also allowed us to kickstart potential ideas around the DEI initiatives within the School of Medicine.
Mid-Career Scholar Dinner
January 19, 2024
Three Mid-Career Scholars from the current cohort (2022-2024) and one from the original cohort (2020-2022) met for dinner on January 19th, in lieu of our regularly scheduled monthly meeting in January 2024. We had a great time and plan to continue meeting to support each other moving forward after graduation.
Together We Lead: WOMEN in Medicine
October 21, 2023
The purpose of Together We Lead: Women in Medicine is to inspire and provide mentorship to women who are aspiring to have a career in medicine. The event also provided attendees with the chance to hear from women in medicine about their experiences. Some key topics were women's health (reproductive rights), resilience, and intersectionality.
ARCHES Mid-Career Mentorship Group Kickoff
October 12, 2023
This Mid-Career Peer-Mentorship Circle met together in-person to have dinner and discuss mid-career issues. Participants shared their experiences on hiring, grant applications, mentoring of early career faculty, and discussed the mentorship group needs going forward. They identified future opportunities for ARCHES Mid-Career Mentorship meet ups and supports including walks and discussion of lessons learned during their time at UCSF.
Black Womxn Researcher Mixer
September 27, 2023
A group of black womxn researchers gathered at CHORI in Oakland. The group was clinical-researchers, primary researchers, learners and faculty. Discussion included formation of a UCSF Black Womxn Innovation Lab that would allow for cross cutting collaboration in research, community building, mentorship and sponsorship, best practices to achieve this, including contacting Black researchers in UCSF school of nursing who have successfully worked together. There was also discussion of a Black Womxn Innovation Lab Retreat to kickstart this program.
East Bay Lunch at Drake's
September 15, 2023
Over lunch, participants discussed some of the challenges faced as Black women in the academy. Participants also chatted about their lives including families, work, future projects, and possibilities for collaboration.