This grant supports Mandл Holford, Jackie Faherty, and Ruth Cohen, three scientists affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) who are spearheading a decadal project they are calling “2030STEM”. The initiative seeks to create changes in the STEM enterprise as it concerns building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for BIPOC scholars. Housed at AMNH and lasting ten years, 2030STEM involves four focus areas simultaneously attempting systems level change: identifying, training and championing a cadre of Fellows; partnering with and seeking to extend the scale of existing successful equity and inclusion programs and organizations; creating financial incentives and access to capital for scholars of color in STEM and for collaborating institutions and companies that will be vested in the success of 2030STEM Fellows; and creating and implementing a novel and wide-reaching advocacy campaign to accelerate systemic change. As well as delivering results through these four focus areas during the ten-year projects, the team also intends for activities to be continued and developed through organizations with kindred missions.