R-Ladies Seattle and Allyship

Note that we've moved this event from July 16th at 6:30pm to August 5th at noon.

After a 3-month hiatus, we'll be returning with a virtual event focused on allyship in the R-Ladies Seattle community. We will discuss how, as a community of R users, we can make changes to our group so that R-Ladies members who are Black, Indigenous, and POC will feel supported, included, and enthusiastically welcomed and celebrated. We will also use this event as a forum to educate ourselves about how to be anti-racist data scientists, touching on places where allies can be most effective.

We will discuss meetup event best practices for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and changes we are working on for R-Ladies Seattle. We'll also lead a discussion about which projects/changes R-Ladies members would like to prioritize. Your input and participation in this event is welcomed and appreciated.

In the meantime, if you'd like get caught up on DEI initiatives and discussions in the broader R community, I recommend reading and viewing the following:

• Heather Turner's talk at CelebRation 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbpkKzz71EY)
• Introducing MiR: A Community of Underrepresented Minority Users of R (https://medium.com/@doritolay/introducing-mir-a-community-for-underrepresented-users-of-r-7560def7d861)
• Supporting diversity in the R community (upcoming useR talk to be live streamed on July 17th: https://user2020.r-project.org/program/agenda/)
• Discussion between Heather Turner and Jenny Bryan on how to increase diversity of R Core on the R-Ladies Global Slack (if you are on this slack, see discussions in #events_global, invite link to Slack here: https://rladies-community-slack.herokuapp.com/)

Please reach out to R-Ladies Seattle co-organizers if you have any questions, concerns, comments, or ideas about this event. You can send us a message on the R-Ladies Seattle Slack, message us on Twitter (@rladiesseattle) or send an email to seattle@rladies.org.