The challenges we currently face as a global community are unlike any others in history. To drive the kind of innovation necessary to meet those challenges, it’s critical that science is open to the widest possible range of perspectives, experience, and skillsets. The biodiversity science community doesn’t merely need to embrace diversity—its future depends on it. The academic focus of my career to date has been scientific collections-based research in arachnology, biodiversity science, and evolutionary biology—but science education and DEIA work have always been core to my research program, lab and mentees, global initiative work and personal experience. I am deeply committed to changing not only who participates in STEM, but who is served by STEM.