In this issue we’ve devoted a feature article to mentoring. Don’t miss the description of the new Full Circle Mentorship program that AISES is undertaking with the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. This initiative holds great opportunities not only for our students, but also for our prospective mentors, who often tell me that they get as much — or more — out of the mentoring relationship than their young mentees. Another focus in this issue is our annual roster of the Top 50 Workplaces for Indigenous STEM Professionals. See which organizations made the 2024 list of diversity leaders and learn what some their staff members have to say.
As always, you’ll find profiles of some of our remarkable members in “AISES People,” and you can read news of AISES and the AISES family in “AISES Notebook.” For advice on building your future, turn to “Paths in Education,” and “Career Builder.”
And in “Last Word,” you’ll find an insightful essay by Dr. Daniel Wildcat, who writes that
“when science ignores Indigenous knowledge, scientific understanding and outcomes are compromised through loss of designs and solutions never considered.”
Thank you for being part of the effort to help AISES make sure that science includes, respects — and benefits from — Indigenous knowledge.