<br/>Underrepresented Minority (URM) women engineering faculty are leading change in the academy through outstanding research and leadership endeavors. A 2005 NSF ADVANCE Leadership award entitled, “Peer Mentoring Summits for Women Engineering Faculty of Color” convened the first ever set of summits focused on URM women engineering faculty. Using a “where are they now” approach, we will highlight the accomplishments of participants in this initiative started 12 years ago. Given the increasing number of workshops, summits and publications focused on Women of Color (WOC) STEM academicians, we will present experiential perspectives and summarize these efforts for WOC STEM faculty. The subsequent development of cross-cultural collaborations in a new multi-university NSF-ADVANCE project entitled, “Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: An Intentional Community in Engineering (LATTICE)” will also be presented. While intersectionality defines unique issues at the intersection of race and gender, this paper explores the expansion of formal networks of our diverse LATTICE team building on the success of previous ADVANCE faculty development initiatives. The paper will also discuss how ongoing informal networks continue to incorporate mentoring and coaching to empower women engineering faculty. As we celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the first summit at our institution, one thing is for sure, there is still more work to be done to achieve parity, equity and inclusion for WOC engineering faculty. As the next generation of WOC faculty move up the ranks, it will be critical to engage them in the ongoing identification of core actions relative to all of the literature that has at times excluded them from an active dialog. Collaborations with thoughtful, engaged and committed institutional leadership will complete the partnerships required to implement real and sustained change. A long- term impact study of the summit participants will catalyze these engagements with institutional leadership.

Advance-ENG success through strategic formal and informal networks for women of color (WOC) engineering faculty

256th National Meeting (2018)

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