Excerpt from article: "As members of the professorate, we occupy spaces that are rarely diverse, inclusive, or accessible, and current practices for training social science researchers reproduce the status quo. Too few students from diverse backgrounds—notably, first-generation college students and students of color, but also women—enter the training pipeline early in their college career (Schultz et al. Reference Schultz, Hernandez, Woodcock, Estrada, Chance, Aguilar and Serpe2011). Moreover, those who do enter are disproportionately likely to exit (Monforti and Michelson Reference Monforti and Michelson2008). These twin institutional failures yield cohorts of newly trained social scientists that are persistently less diverse than they could be..."