The DEI program sponsored the INFORMS DEI Ambassadors program, where newly minted Ambassadors were charged with finding strategies to increase the numbers of underrepresented groups in the systems engineering area and in other areas such as analytic/data science. The program challenged me to find strategies to increase the number of African Americans in the field of analytics/data science and to network with other DEI Ambassadors. It also afforded me the opportunity to network with five HBCUs to find ways to increase the number of African Americans in analytics/data science.
