MIT Committees

MIT hosts a tremendous range of committees and groups dedicated to advancing the Institute’s objectives and goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Participants in the groups below, which are all organized around campus-wide mandates or charters, are drawn from academic, research, and administrative units all across the MIT.

For more detailed listings of active committees at MIT, please consult the individual listings on our Local Resources and Contacts page.

Institute Committees

CommitteePopulation servedContact
Bias Response Team (BRT)MIT CommunitySarah Rankin
Institute Council on Belonging, Achievement, and CompositionMIT CommunityCommittee
Committee on Sexual Misconduct Prevention and ResponseMIT CommunitySarah Rankin | Lerna Ekmekcioglu
Council on Family and WorkMIT CommunityAmy Glasmeier | Ken Goldsmith
OME Faculty Advisory CommitteeFacultyHelen Elaine Lee | Edmund Bertsinger
OME Student Advisory CouncilStudentsDionetta Jones-Crayton
UA Diversity CouncilUndergraduate Studentsua-response@mit.edu
Faculty Gender Equity CommitteesFacultyVarious
Women’s Advisory GroupFacultyJudi Segall | Kalina Schlonger
Working Group for Support StaffStaffShirley Entzminger

Local Committees

CommitteeContact
SAP Faculty Diversity CommitteeJanelle Knox-Hayes | Larry Sass
AeroAstro Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Innovation CommitteeDenise Phillips
Diversity Think Tank (DT2)Sophia Hasenfus | Libby Mahaffy
SEABoard Diversity & Inclusion CommitteeCommittee Chairs
SHASS Faculty Diversity CommitteeTracie Jones
D-Lab DEIB CommitteeCommittee Chairs
SoE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion CommitteeDaniel Hastings
SoE Faculty Gender Equity CommitteeColette Heald | Dane Wittrup
EECS Committee for Diversity and InclusionAmanda Beyer-Purvis
Biology Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Council and Faculty DEI CommitteeMike Laub | Yukiko Yamashita
Physics Values CommitteeCommittee Chairs
Towards Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (TIDE) in MIT Earth Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)Julia Wilcots | Meghana Ranganatha