Community voices: Achieving real diversity in STEM requires the ability to transform institutions.

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Facultad de Finanzas, Gobierno y Asuntos Internacionales, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, 111711, Colombia.

Published: March 2022

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Resilience is often invoked to address systemic marginalization (e.g. racism) in academia but inadvertently maintains harmful systems. We argue that the ability to transform systems, as opposed to persevering within them, must be prioritized to make real, lasting change.

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