US-RSE’s DEI working group (DEI-WG) is proud to help US-RSE celebrate and participate in Pride Month. Throughout June, the US-RSE will spotlight LGBTQ+ individuals who have been involved in computing, science, engineering, and/or math, and have inspired our members through their accomplishments in their careers and their personal stories.

Happy Pride Month, everyone! If you are new to US-RSE this year, you might not have had a chance to see our nifty US-RSE Pride Logo before. Be sure to check out this article about the history of the Pride Flag and its many variants (Wikipedia).

Thanks to the US-RSE Community and Travel Funds program, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, I had the chance to bring together RSE team members from Purdue, Indiana University, and the University of Notre Dame for a meetup in Indianapolis. We wanted to better understand how each of our teams operate, where we’re running into the same challenges, and how we might work together to build something more intentional: a sustainable, connected US-RSE Indiana Regional Group.