Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources for TAA Members

TAA’s Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI) was established in 2020 to advise and provide recommendations to the TAA Council on matters affecting representation, opportunities, academic authoring in general and equitable treatment of all TAA members with respect to their TAA benefits.

In this section we will provide you with links to materials the Committee has developed, or to information about fellow TAA members' experience and advice, regarding how you can apply DEI principles to your own writing, and steps you can take to improve DEI for your own and/or fellow authors' writing projects. There is also a CDEI webpage that includes links to these same resources, along with Council statements and Committee progress reports on the work it is engaged in to improve DEI within TAA and the broader authoring community.

Interested in serving on the Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? Contact us at [email protected]

DEI Resources for Writing

• Annotated DEI Resources for Language, Images, Content, and Publishers
• DEI textbook references and resources from Dr. Stacie DeFreitas

CDEI Work 

• TAA’s DEI Committee Reads Land and Labor Acknowledgement at 2024 Annual Conference
• TAA Diversity Survey Results
• CDEI Town Hall on Identity in Peer Review-Slides
• CDEI Town Hall on Identity in Peer Review-Summary

Articles

• What is critical race theory and why it should matter to academic authors
  By Stacie DeFreitas
• President’s Message: Doing the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion
  By Kevin Patton
• Words matter: Guidelines for pronoun usage
  By Morgan Grant
• Inclusion means including everyone
  By Kevin Patton