Coming off the rush from an extremely unique conference that Enrico Ramirez Ruiz, Jane Dai and Nicole Cabrera Salazar and I just organized, at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. This was a theoretical astrophysics conference, but also the first ever workshop designed to organize the URM community in a very non-URM dominated field. We had a very emotional week discussing many of the challenges we have, and continue to face, just to be able to do the thing we love: science. But it was also extremely hopeful and I feel like it was the start of a very positive movement to make our field more accepting of a wider range of experiences. Let’s make a comparison between then and now!
