I’m Kimberly Mealy. I’m the Senior Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Ethics
at the American Political Science Association.
My primary areas of focus are diversity, inclusion, and equity, with regards
to faculty members, graduate students, and undergrads, and for the discipline as a whole,
as well as ethics and professional rights for political scientists
and members within our association.
I would say that research shows us that conducting evidence-based studies
is very important, and not only conducting those studies,
but also communicating those studies in a way that is accessible
to the broad public is very important.
And we as political scientists also support our members
in terms of being able to communicate their research in a very accessible way.
The American Political Science Association is also working very closely
with our sister associations and societies with regards to
assessing the status and the experience of faculty members,
graduate students, and students, and in fact we've signed on to
colleague letters and have also issued
statements of our own that ask individuals within higher administration
 to make accommodations for faculty members, for graduate students,
for faculty members that might be on the tenure clock
and may have experienced disruptions in their ability to work
and to meet deadlines that had been set earlier.
So we're very proud of that and we do hope that higher ed
administrators will be able to make those various accommodations.
