These officers, committees, and offices promote diversity and inclusion at MIT, but every community member can play a role in advancing a respectful and caring community. Please feel free to reach out to the people listed below. We welcome your ideas for change, improvements, feedback, and other communications.
I. Officers, Directors, Managers, and Diversity Representatives
- Beatriz Cantada, Director of Engagement for Diversity and Inclusion, Institute Community and Equity Office
- Bianca Lepe, Graduate Student Council (GSC) Representative and Chair of Diversity and Inclusion
- Blanche E Staton, Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Director of the Office of Graduate Education
- Chevalier Cleaves, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Lincoln Laboratory
- Denise Phillips, Diversity Officer, MIT AeroAstro
- DiOnetta Jones Crayton, Associate Dean and Director, Office of Minority Education
- Eboney Hearn, Executive Director, Office of Engineering Outreach Programs
- Gerardo Garcia-Rios, Associate Dean & Co-Director, Student Support Services
- Gustavo Burkett, Senior Associate Dean, Diversity & Community Involvement, Division of Student Life
- Jason McKnight, Assistant Director, Department Support Program & MindHandHeart
- Kathleen Cahill, Associate Dean for Accessibility & Usability
- Kathleen Monagle, Associate Dean, Student Disability Services
- Kate McCarthy, Associate Dean, Student Support &Wellbeing, Division of Student Life
- Kwadwo Poku, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives, MIT Medical
- La-Tarri Canty, Associate Dean of Intercultural Engagement/SPXCE Intercultural Center
- Lauryn McNair, Assistant Dean of Intercultural Engagement for LBGTQ+, Women and Gender Services
- Libby Mahaffy, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant, Office of Human Resources
- Mandana Sassanfar, Lecturer and Diversity Coordinator, Department of Biology and Center for Brains, Minds and Machines
- Mary Ziegler, Program Manager of Online Accessibility, Office of Digital Learning
- Monica Orta, Director, Diversity and Student Support, Program in Media Arts and Sciences
- Nina DeAgrela, Assistant Dean, Multicultural Programs
- Ray Reagans, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at MIT Sloan
- Sarah Rankin, Director and Title IX Coordinator
II. Committees (centrally sponsored and those reporting to units)
- AeroAstro Faculty, Student, and Staff Standing Committee on Race and Diversity
- Alumni Association and Resource Development Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (W98)
- Committee on Race and Diversity (pdf) (grants program)
- Committee on Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response
- Council on Staff Diversity and Inclusion (pdf) (homepage)
- D-Lab Committee on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
- Diversity Think Tank (DT2)
- Division of Student Life SEABoard Diversity & Inclusion Committee
- Gender and Sexuality Working Group
- Graduate Student Council Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee (DIS)
- Graduate Women at MIT
- Industrial Advisory Council for Minority Education
- OME Faculty Advisory Committee
- OME Student Advisory Council
- School of Architecture and Planning Diversity Committee. For more information, contact Professor John A. Ochsendorf, Chair, jao@mit.edu
- School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Faculty Diversity Committee
- Sloan School of Management Gender Equity Committee
- Undergraduate Association Community Committee
- Women’s Advisory Group (WAG)
III. Offices (organized by the group served)
Everyone
- Accessibility and Usability at MIT
- Community Wellness at MIT Medical
- Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS)
- Institute Discrimination and Harassment Response Office
- LBGTQ at MIT
- MindHandHeart Initiative
- MIT Board of Chaplains
- Ombuds Office
- Program in Women’s and Gender Studies
- Violence Prevention and Response
- Women’s League
- Work-Life Center
Faculty
Researchers
Staff
Students
(Student clubs are included if they have a physical space.)
- Addir Interfaith Program
- Black Graduate Student Association
- Black Students’ Union
- First Generation Program
- Graduate Personal Support
- Common Values on the Graduate Student Experience
- Graduate Student REFS
- Institute Discrimination and Harassment Response Office
- International Students Office
- Latino Cultural Center
- MIT Student Resources
- My Sister’s Keeper
- Office of Graduate Education
- Office of Minority Education
- Office of Multicultural Programs
- Sloan Student Life Office
- SPXCE Intercultural Center
- Student Activities Office
- Student Disabilities Services
- Student Support Services
- Violence Prevention and Response
Extended Community
IV. Other Resources
- Admissions Blogs
- Blacks at MIT History Project
- Family Medical & Leave Act
- Graduate Community Fellows
- Graduate Student Council Advising Initiative
- Humans of MIT
- ICEO Blog
- Leading for Change Consortium (statewide)
- MyLife Services
- Soulstrong: Portraits of Resilience
- Sloan Diversity and Community Committee (Available to members of the Sloan School; other MIT community members can access these pages by following the instructions to create a MySloan account.)