The TEAM-UP Time is Now report identified personal support as an important and key factor in helping African American students persist. Financial barriers, societal issues, stereotypes, and systemic racism are just some of the issues African American students grapple with as they work toward their degrees. In this webinar, we will discuss and explore the many ways that faculty, graduate students, administrators, peers, and others can offer personal support that helps African American students persist in their physics and astronomy programs.

One of the factors that contributes to the persistence of African American students in physics and astronomy is Physics Identity, but what are some effective ways to help African American students build their physics identity and how does the development of physics identity interact with racial or other social identities? In this webinar, we will explore these topics and more, going deeper into this concept and bringing it to life with personal experiences shared by the speakers.

Although the TEAM-UP report touches on intersectionality, we took a deeper dive in this webinar because we know that the racialized and gendered experiences of Black women in physics and astronomy can be unique from those of non-Black women and Black men.  This webinar on Belonging centers the experiences of African American women in physics and astronomy.