Culturally Aware Mentoring Resources

• The National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) - Unconscious Bias Course​
• Fair Play - www.fairplaygame.org
• Catalyst – Conversation Roadblocks - https://www.catalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Conversation-Roadblocks-Infographic-Print.pdf  (Handout in materials folder)​
• The Impacts of Racism and Bias on Black People Pursuing Careers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Proceedings of a Workshop (The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)​
• Chapter 3 from NAS, The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM​
• Definitions: Mentorship, Identity, and STEMM - https://www.nap.edu/resource/25568/interactive/mentorship-defined.html#section3​
• ORD webpage: https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/ord/other-rd-resources-and-services/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-research/​
• iBiology 2-part video series led by CAM Developers (Part 1: A Conversation on Culturally Aware Mentoring Audience and Part 2: Resources & Strategies to Enhance Culturally Aware Mentoring)​
• BUILD - https://www.nigms.nih.gov/training/dpc/pages/build.aspx​
• NRMN Culturally Aware Mentorship (CAM) Intro Video -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTLUeQFmIk&feature=emb_logo​
• The Diversity Program Consortium (DPC) is a network of institutions, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to improve training and mentoring and to enhance individuals' success in biomedical research careers. - https://diversityprogramconsortium.org/pages/​
• Anti-racism resources from the NIH-Funded Workforce, Diversity Program Consortium (DPC) - https://www.diversityprogramconsortium.org/pages/anti-racism_resources​
• The Promoting Opportunities for Diversity in Education and Research program at the National Institutes of Health–funded Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity sites (BUILD) site at California State University, Northridge https://www.csun.edu/build-poder/build-poder-mentor-training​
• At Project Implicit https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/, mentors can find a number of tests that enable them to explore specific biases and assumptions, such as those about gender, disabilities, skin-tone, etc.​
• Culturally Aware Mentorship -Sherilynn J. Black, Ph.D. and Angela Byars-Winston, Ph.D. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt38C2l-o2o&t=305s​
• Mass Mentoring Culturally Responsive Workbook https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54c6fd1be4b0f6cdd67c71db/t/5750b218746fb9ef25046c84/1464906265333/Participant_workbook.pdf
• https://www.ctsi.umn.edu/education-and-training/mentoring/mentor-training
• www.cirtl.net
• http://cimerproject.org
• https://nrmnet.net (this includes an implicit bias training)

• Measuring Research Mentors’ Cultural Diversity Awareness for Race/Ethnicity in STEM: Validity Evidence for a New Scale ​(Angela Byars-Winston  and Amanda R. Butz, 2021, CBE—Life Sciences Education, Vol. 20, No. 2) - 

  Used in mentoring dyads to assess alignment between research mentors’ and mentees’ beliefs and observed behaviors or a way to compare mentor and mentee CDA attitudes; Rate each item on a six-point Likert-type scale of agreement, ranging from “strongly disagree” (1) to “strongly agree” (6)
• Byars-Winston, A., Womack, V. Y., Butz, A. R., McGee, R., Quinn, S. C., Utzerath, E., ... & Thomas, S. B. (2018). Pilot study of an intervention to increase cultural awareness in research mentoring: Implications for diversifying the scientific workforce. Journal of clinical and translational science, 2(2), 86-94.