Managing Diversity in a Changing World

This symposium, Managing Diversity in a Changing World, will provide a forum on diversity management solutions in the fisheries conservation field.  These will include proposed solutions and examples of existing programs, policies, approaches and applications being used to overcome barriers to diversity management.  This symposium will consider actions that affect the range of common employers of fisheries management and conservation professionals.  The focus will be on programs and actions that address the need for diversification of sex and racial/ethnic demographics.  However, presenters may also pose solutions that tackle the challenges of effectively managing the many other primary and secondary forms of workforce diversity.  This symposium will address how employers of fisheries professionals are attempting to meet the challenges of diversity management – both at the individual and institutional levels – and highlight innovations in connecting under-represented publics with fisheries and natural resource careers.