Despite the growing number of curricula, seminars, and workshops providing resources for physics educators to address EDI in their classrooms, many physics educators are hesitant to engage in critical conversations, due to lack of facilitation skills, fear of burdening minoritized students, and/or fear of causing harm due to lack of expertise. The APS EDI Fellows Program seeks to address the gap between available EDI resources and physicists' lack of expertise in critical conversations by training a cohort of physicists and pairing them with critical conversation specialists to present interactive workshops that address fear and build capacity for physicists to engage in EDI conversations. Addressing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in physics is a prominent goal of the APS Strategic Plan.

Dr. Beatriz E Burrola Gabilondo has been named an EDI Fellow, and will be trained in how to foster EDI discussions in the classroom. The EDI Fellows, in partnership with the Curriculum Development Team (CDT), will develop and facilitate subsequent workshops for physics educators interested in building capacity to do EDI work in their classrooms. 

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