Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

The Allen Institute is committed to an inclusive culture that encourages, nurtures, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees, collaborators, partners, and communities.

Our Commitment

While elevating and acknowledging diversity, we’re creating a work environment where everyone is respected, valued, and feels safe to express themselves. We will be transparent and accountable for our actions.

Racism and discrimination are pervasive in scientific research and research organizations. We are committed to providing opportunities within the Allen Institute for underrepresented minorities at all levels of our organization.

Different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger, inclusive, and innovative work environment that delivers big science and impacts the world.

Allenites marching in the Seattle Pride Parade. Photo: Jon Sim

Our Work

As a scientific organization building a world-class culture of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEI&B), Allen Institute employees collaborated to create a word cloud that represents our journey together as we move forward with purpose and impactful intention for the future. Within the Erlenmeyer flask, you will find elements of who we are as a whole, including our affinity groups as well as terms related to our mission statement, culture, values, core principles, and our DEI&B Vision of Success.

Allen Institute Affinity Groups

A³PI – Asian, Asian-American and Pacific Islanders
B.A.S.E. – Black, Advancement, Support and Empowerment
CGAI – Care Givers of Allen Institute
EASL – Estamos Aqui: Somos Latines
LGBTQ+
M.I.N.D. – Mental Inclusivity, Neurodivergence, and Disabilities
TWENTI – Together, Women+ in Engineering, Technology and Informatics

Inclusive workplace guides

The Office of DEIB has created a series of guides to support Allenites in creating a workplace that models the Allen Institute values and DEIB Vision of Success. To date the Office has published the 2024 Inclusive Language, 2024 LGBTQ Benefits Guide, and 2024 LGBTQ+ Workplace Guide in partnership with affinity groups and departments at the institute. The goal of launching these guides was to create resources that foster learning, unlearning, and engagement among employees in pursuit of an inclusive culture that encourages and celebrates diverse voices and experiences at the Allen Institute.

Looking Ahead

These guides will become pieces of a broader Allyship toolkit set to launch in Q1 of 2025. This toolkit will serve as a central location for DEI&B published resource guides and additional internal and external resources meant to support our Allenite community in engaging and being in allyship with communities at the Allen Institute. The idea is that takeaways from these resources will expand far broader than the reach of our institute walls as we work to create an inclusive and innovative work environment that delivers big science and impacts the world.