Zeynep Tuna - Final Presentation.pdf

In light of a global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the efforts to stop Asian and Pacific Islander violence, it is more important now than ever to focus on making our physics community more diverse and inclusive. In order to succeed in this mission, we must better understand the rapidly-changing demographics of the field of physics. During my internship at APS, I had the opportunity to analyze the national physics education statistics based on race, ethnicity, and gender, observe improvements made in diversity and inclusion in physics year by year, and realize the further changes and improvements we need to make. This presentation will focus on how diversity and inclusion data for physics degrees is obtained, categorized, and presented so that the institutions and the community can make active decisions to reach racial and gender parity in the field of physics.