Goals: The GDAWG-SIO Interview project seeks to give a prominent voice to people at SIO who might have been overlooked or felt isolated, because of their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, abilities, economic status or other characteristics. The goals of the project include: providing a forum for people to talk about their individual experiences and the challenges they have faced at SIO and in their careers; stimulating discussions about issues of diversity, including racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, classism; and promoting a more welcoming environment at SIO. In doing so, we hope to promote understanding of the diverse experiences of members of the SIO community.

The Interviews: Click Here for Excerpts and Links

Procedures: Interviews are published on the GDAWG-SIO web site as transcripts from an audio recording, following editing by the GDAWG-SIO Interview Sub-Group and the Interviewee to maintain confidentiality, and approval by the Interviewee, the Interview Project Sub-Group, and members of GDAWG-SIO.

Potential Interviewees are chosen by the Intervew Project Sub-Group based on a perception that they might have interesting and important experiences to relate, and that their association with SIO might have been affected by inadequate diversity. A member of the Interview Project Sub-Group meets with a potential Inverviewee to explain the goals of the project and the procedures taken to ensure confidentiality, and to set a date for the interview.

Interviews are aimed at giving the Interviewees an opportunity to talk about the experiences that they feel are most relevant and important to share, prompted by a list of general questions that might or might not be asked, depending on the course of the interview and the Interviewee's experiences.

Following posting on the GDAWG-SIO website, Interviewees can at any time request that their interview be removed from the site.