Share Your Voice: UC ANR Employee Focus Group Sessions

Date & Time

From September 15, 2025 12:00am to October 31, 2025 11:59pm

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Venue

Zoom

United States

Registration will be managed directly by Xin Kaczmarek, xkaczmarek@ucsd.edu, SCAA Special Projects and Administrative Officer.

About the Event

Share your ideas about how to make UC ANR a more equitable and inclusive community! 
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Join in sharing your voice! Based on feedback from the 2024 UC ANR Employee@Work Survey, UC ANR is hosting focus groups to give all employees an opportunity to share their experiences and provide input on ways to build a more equitable and inclusive community. The intention is to directly gather your ideas on how we can create a more welcoming environment for everyone. The information shared in these sessions will help ANR leadership identify meaningful ways to strengthen belonging and ensure that every member of our community feels supported. 

Each one-hour focus group session will be held virtually via Zoom during September and October and facilitated by Dr. Angela Song-Ruiter, Sr. Director of UC San Diego Strategic Consulting, Assessment & Analytics (SCAA), with special emphasis on key identity groups who reported lower levels of inclusion in the survey.

Please register here: UC ANR Employee Focus Group Sessions Registration  

Each session is available to all employees:

11:00 A.M. Monday, September 15, 2025 (Latinx Employees Session 1)
2:00 P.M. Tuesday, September 16, 2025 (Latinx Employees Session 2)
1:00 P.M. Wednesday, September 24, 2025 ( General Mixed Group Session 1)
2:00 P.M. Thursday, September 25, 2025 ( General Mixed Group Session 2)
10:00 A.M. Tuesday, September 30, 2025 ( Global Employees)
11:00 A.M. Friday, October 3, 2025 ( LGBTQ+ Employees)
11:00 A.M. Monday, October 6, 2025 ( Black Employees)
11:00 A.M. Tuesday, October 7, 2025 ( Asian/Pacific Islander Employees)
2:00 P.M. Monday, October 13, 2025 ( Supervisors/Managers)
10:00 A.M. Tuesday, October 14, 2025 ( Early-Career/Newer Employees)
 
Dr. Song-Ruiter and her team are committed to ensuring no names will be recorded, and all responses will be aggregated and summarized without any identifying information. 
 
Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we truly appreciate your participation in helping us improve our community.

Event Contacts

Elizabeth Moon

Director, Workplace Inclusion & Belonging
emoon@ucanr.edu
5308831174

Ricardo Vela

Chair, UC ANR Inclusive Community Advisory Council
rvela@ucanr.edu

Xin Kaczmarek

UC San Diego Strategic Consulting, Assessment & Analytis, Special Projects & Administration Officer
xkaczmarek@ucsd.edu