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Cultivating Ensembles (CE) Coffee Chats and Community Meetings are hosted and organized by members of the CE community for a broad audience. These sessions create the opportunity for individuals to interact with one another as they share, explore, and play with topics, projects, and programs of interest to our community.
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UPCOMING COFFEE CHATS
"From Gatekeeping to Gatebreaking"
Verónica Segarra (Faculty, Goucher College), Heather Metcalf (Co-Founder, Hexalign), Michael D. Smith (Operations Manager, The PEER Group)
Thursday, April 9 from 6-7pm ET (Register)
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We are delighted to have Verónica Segarra (Faculty, Goucher College), Heather Metcalf (Co-Founder, Hexalign), and Michael D. Smith (Operations Manager, The PEER Group) joining us for our next CE Coffee Chat. They will be leading a discussion around the call for papers in a special issue of Frontiers entitled "From Gatekeeping to Gatebreaking: Leading Through Sociopolitical Pressures to Reimagine STEMM Ecosystems" for which they are the editors. [Submissions are due on June 12, 2026; however requests for extensions will be granted.] Dr. Segarra will also discuss the upcoming publication of a volume of case studies, "Building Inclusive Scientific Communities and Leadership."