Mission statement 

The purpose of the Diversity Leadership Group (DLG) is to oversee the implementation and development of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Plan of AUC, and to play an advisory role regarding AUC’s policies on diversity more generally. 

On top of this, the DLG supports community-building for AUC on diversity-related topics. The DLG has collaborated with members of the community in the following events: 

• Discussion with two researchers at the VU, Dr. Ismintha Waldring and Otto Linde, about their diverse pathways into academics (December 2024); 

• Excursion to the Amsterdam Museum with Professor Johan Koppenol encouraged participants to reflect on how history is told and whose voices are heard (May 2025); 

• Excursion to the Hortus Botanicus with Misha Vlethuis and Dr. Saurabh Arora explored the layered history of the Hortus as both a site of scientific discovery and a place historically connected to colonial networks (June 2025); 

The Diversity Leadership Group 

The Diversity Leadership Group (DLG) is composed of an equal number of staff members and students working on improving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts at the college. Currently Prof. Dr. Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, AUC's Diversity Advisor, oversees the functioning of the DLG. 

For the academic year 2024-2025, the members of the DLG are: 

• Prof. Dr. Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach (chair) 
• Nehir Adiloglu (student) 
• Huan Hsu (staff) 
• Areebah Huq (student) 
• Emma Krone (staff) 
• Maxim Kupovykh (staff) 
• Axl Szyszko (student) 
• Marcello Benedetti (Graduate Assistant, supporting) 
• Dhruv Gulati (Graduate Assistant, supporting)