Office for
Equity and Diversity

Learn more about the Diversity Community of Practice (DCoP), a grassroots community of faculty and staff from collegiate and administrative units across the Twin Cities campus that develops and leverages personal, professional, and technical expertise to ensure successful implementation of equity and diversity goals at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

Peg Lonnquist, the director of the Women's Center, has received the National Women's Studies Association Women's Center Lifetime Achievement Award.

Learn more about Peg and the award »

Bill Solboe, an Access Consultant in the Disability Resource Center, is ‪#‎UMNDriven to turn his successful Music Mayhem game into a venture to raise money for Alzheimer’s research. ‪

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Dr. Michelle Johnson-Jennings is a trained clinical psychologist, a health researcher and advocate for tribal communities and a member of the Choctaw Nation.

Learn more about Dr. Johnson-Jennings and her work »

Sean Garrick, Professor of Mechanical Engineering is the incoming Faculty Development Fellow for the Institute for Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy (IDEA).

Learn more about Professor Garrick on the OED blog  »

A coalition of black professors from around the U.S. pen a letter of support to black students in the wake of the #BlackLivesMatter actions happening nationwide.