Diverse expert voices for a diverse country

Support our efforts to train more for public scholarship [The Conversation. Help us inform the public]( Dear Reader, I’m excited to share with you initial progress on The Conversation’s initiative to address the lack of diversity among the experts heard in the media. We are already publishing more scholars of color, women and experts with diverse life experiences. Our work here has a simple logic: The Conversation’s mission is to share the knowledge of experts. We believe that the public needs to listen to people armed with comprehensive and authoritative knowledge. We also believe that the public will be more likely to listen to experts when they are seeing those who look like America. We have always worked hard to seek out diverse scholarly voices who are authorities in their fields – experts who are Black, Latino, Indigenous, or Asian American; women from academia; people from rural parts of our country or the LGBTQIA+ communities; and first-generation college graduates. But we’re stepping it up to be more intentional and strategic in this effort. Your gift for this project today will go directly to help our team seek out, work with, train and publish articles from diverse scholars. Your support will also help pay for an editor focusing on issues of race and equity and how they affect America’s democracy. And your donation will pay for building a database that will be available and easily searchable by reporters looking for a source of diverse experts to interview and quote. Please donate today to this important initiative – [your gift of $50, $100 or whatever you can afford]( will help and be much appreciated. [Donate $50]( [Donate $100]( [Other amount]( Of course, we also appreciate your tax-deductible check sent to 303 Wyman Street, Suite 300, Waltham, MA 02451. We do this from a place of humility. We are one small part of the media landscape and trying to address problems that have been building for centuries, but we are eager, with your help, to do our part. Thank you in advance, [Beth Daley]( Beth Daley Editor and General Manager, The Conversation U.S. [Facebook]([Twitter]([Instagram]([LinkedIn]([Website]( [Forward]( The Conversation US 303 Wyman Street, Suite 300 Waltham, MA 02451 You’re receiving this email as a newsletter subscriber or previous donor to The Conversation U.S. Clicking the Unsubscribe link will cancel your newsletter subscription. If you want us to stop asking you for money, [reply to this email](mailto:us.newsletter@theconversation.com) and we’ll do that. [Unsubscribe](