What does Diversity mean to you?

  • It means that we represent ourselves, our backgrounds, our history in who we are at the Lab.

  • Listening to the best ideas

  • Diversity means different perspectives from people from all parts of the world, from all walks of life. Acceptance for being different. Diversity sparks innovation, initiates new processes, jump starts new ways of thinking for the greater good.

  • Different cultures, colors, ages, backgrounds, and expression. Diversity is strength.

  • All voices welcome at the table.

  • End social bullying.

  • Expression without fear.

  • Free to be me without fear of you.

  • Diversity is the spice of life

  • Seeing things through the lens of not hetero, not male, and not white.

  • more knowledge and better ideas

  • Making concrete decisions to move beyond tolerance and acceptance. Actively modifying the social environment, standards, dynamics, and hierarchies based on the viewpoints of everyone.

  • Everyone is diverse.

  • not having to apologize for who i am

  • Multi cultural representation at every level

  • Sharing my true self and being accepted

  • Since LBNL is a place of ideas and science, to me the key value of diversity is bringing together teams of people with varied backgrounds, training, and life experiences, and creating an environment in which all feel comfortable sharing their ideas and all hear the ideas of our colleagues; and very importantly, we all have trust in the process to RESPECTFULLY CHALLENGE and CRITIQUE each other to arrive at technically sound approaches and solutions to science, operations, and societal challenges.

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  • Inclusion

  • Equality

  • Multi-cultural representation at all levels.

  • Good money management.

  • A variety of voices, ideas & perspectives.

  • Being different...unique!

  • Requesting feedback and follow-through.

  • different view points

  • Learn about other cultures.

  • Variety, mixture.

  • All ages

  • Different cultures.

  • Mixture with all included.

  • Open to everyone's ideas!

  • There's no diversity here.

  • Representing all sub-groups of the larger population.

  • Different perspectives, greater innovation.

  • Different ideas and views.

  • Perspective.

  • many voices, many perspectives

  • Seeing every human as equal.

  • we have to accept and get along, everyone is equal

  • variety & culture

  • Differences & similarities.

  • A range of differences.

  • Leveraging the combined intelligence of all cultures.

  • people are different

  • different cultures

  • Commonalities in our differences.

  • Enriching

  • Everything

  • Everyone gets the opportunity to be their best.

  • Giving opportunity to everyone.

  • Working with people from all over the world.

  • Having people with different experiences that give new perspectives on problems.

  • 2 ethnic backgrounds working together as a whole

  • people coming together

  • Differences in experiences and philosophy...not race or gender.

  • OAKLAND

  • More than one viewpoint is always better.

  • Inclusiveness

  • All ideas are heard and considered.

  • Inclusion of varying perspectives.

  • Makes life more interesting.

  • Variety

  • Equal opportunities for better outcomes.

  • Making things better.

  • Welcome to Berkeley Lab. "The Lion King" Lion father and son.

  • Inclusion

  • Making things better.

  • Everyone having a voice and getting the chance to share their ideas.

  • Not actually needing to think about the room being diverse

  • More productive and inclusive work environment with new ideas.

  • People from all walks of life.

  • Being accepted no matter what. Ethnicity, social, economic and cultural variety.

  • People from all backgrounds have equal access to an opportunity.

  • The sharing of concepts and ideas of resilience from different cultures.

  • Acknowledging differences & fighting internal biases and being open to a dialogue on inclusion.

  • People of all backgrounds.

  • Diversity means representation of all races in a place of work or environment.

  • Having different opinions, respecting points of view. Inclusiveness!

  • Not being judgemental.

  • Differences in experience and background.

  • Fair, equal treatment for all.

  • Strength, balance, insight, and synergy arising and growing from multiple varying perspectives and experiences.

  • Maintaining a melting pot of backgrounds and identities.

  • Differences.

  • Better problem solving.

  • Inclusion, equality.

  • Inclusion, conscientiousness, prosperity.

  • Things that are not the same.

  • Taking part in important decisions. Having my voice heard.

  • When you trim away the edges, we are all the same. (All shapes can be cut down to a triangle.)

  • Different faces, people, attitudes, language, worlds, points of view and experience.

  • Learning to think differently.

  • More great ideas!

  • A platform for all voices to be heard.

  • Being blind to differences and including everyone no matter who they are.

  • Freedom to choose who you want to be.

  • Equal representation

  • More brain power!

  • New learning.

  • Acceptance of one's individuality

  • Celebrating our differences.

  • Respect the choices of all humans.

  • Opportunity for each perspective to be heard and considered.

  • Different perspectives. Different truths. Different personalities. But all the same.

  • better outcomes & better solutions

  • Diversity is understanding that small streams make big rivers.

  • In order to create changes in diversity, we need to focus on hiring practices!

  • New perspectives.

  • A collection of differing, thoughts, ideas and philosophies!!

  • Freedom of expression.

  • Does the Lab have an anti-bullying policy?

  • Core value: Not a buzzword.

  • It's not under representation, it's over representation.

  • Mutual respect and understanding.

  • Everyone and everything is given respect, the right to belong, and can feel safe.

  • As a minority group, it means walking into a room and seeing someone like me and someone different.

  • Diversity means having a wide variety of perspectives, leading to better decisions and outcomes.

  • Acceptance people as they are!

  • Expanding your experience through the views of others.

  • More perspectives available for innovation

  • Welcome and open to people from all around the world and enjoy learning about different cultures!

  • Accepting people's right to free speech, and having tolerance even for opinions and beliefs that are "offensive".

  • Diversity in BERKELEY means inclusion of people who are conservative, religious, and support the Constitution.

  • feeling part of the group at all time, not only when I am present

  • Recognizing that other people could be different than I am, in many aspects that include culture, professional skill sets, opportunities they either get or don't in order to be successful. Diversity means respecting very person's necessity to the system and making oneself feel less self-important all the time.

  • The open exchange of ideas

  • Cisgender, heterosexual, able, and white no longer being the standard

  • Be curious and listen to each other

  • Mental Health Matters! No discrimination for mental illness in healthy workplace.

  • No discrimination for mental illness in healthy workplace.

  • Stronger science and stronger community arising the equitable inclusion of ideas from people from a variety of social and ethnic backgrounds and job types and classifications.

  • I'm an affiliate at the lab. Whenever there are e-mails sent that invite a certain group, division, etc. to an event, they usually use phrases such as "..all staff are invited to join...". I just assumed I'm part of the staff an went, but the word "staff" does have the connotation of people who have unlimited, career-track kind of contracts with the lab, as opposed to affiliates. I'm not a native speaker, but maybe a word like "colleague" would be more inclusive.

  • Variety

  • Makes it less boring!

  • People feel welcome & collaboration is great!

  • makes it welcoming

  • Better Performance

  • Exchange new ideas

  • Diversity helps us to bring solutions and new skills!!

  • I agree with all the above.

  • identify commonalities

  • People should feel free to express their concerns and needs.

  • can help identify unconscious bias

  • Exposed to different cultures and viewpoints you wouldn't have in everyday life

  • ...more viewpoints lead to more innovation...

  • Safe environment to express yourself.

  • Help people to embrace those that are not like themselves.

  • We can all learn from each other of different backgrounds and knowledge.

  • different perspectives allow for better idea generation and alternate ways of solving a problem

  • ...unique viewpoints...

  • great ideas come from many different opinions

  • Exciting discussions!

  • Allows creative ideas because of different perspectives.

  • Diversity makes the Lab feel more inclusive.

  • more encouragement

  • Feel more comfortable to express yourself.

  • Better exposure to different ideas and experiences.

  • As a woman & POC I feel like I have role models who have a more similar background.

  • You don't have to go way outside your comfort zone because the job will be within someone else's comfort zone.

  • corollary: I got a place

  • Improving QOL at Lab improves diversity.

  • Where the only constraints are set by what a (bacterial) cell can do

  • Variety of ideas and perspectives.

  • Ideas from many perspectives and life histories help up make better choices.

  • Different perspectives which lead to better solutions.

  • Excellence

  • Hearing thoughts and ideas different from my own.

  • All the wonderful people I work with.

  • New ideas.

  • All cultures, languages, accents, imperfect English.

  • Acceptance

  • Creativity

  • Every person is treated with the same value

  • All voices and points of view are heard.

  • Different ideas, perspectives, thoughts, trainings

  • Diversity allows me to make friends with different cultures.

  • Multiple perspectives and skillsets collaborating make for more thoughtful planning and execution of a project.

  • more fun!

  • Equal opportunities for everyone.

  • science is for everyone!

  • Open to all religious and political beliefs.

  • celebrating our differences

  • different perspectives...greater innovations

  • New ideas

  • Less criticism; acceptance of different view points.

  • Your normal is not my normal.

  • ...opportunity to grow and be beautiful...

  • Stop with the "my way or the highway" attitude in meetings.

  • A buzzword for invited speakers who do not encourage their audiences to say why they might disagree with them.

  • Celebrating differences (with drawn flowers)

  • A City of Diversity

  • A range of different ideas, thoughts, cultures, backgrounds, and beliefs
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