Abstract
Systemic racism is pervasive in society, and it influences the lives of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in often fatal ways (Sinyangwe and McKesson 2020). Academics often assume that intellectual venues function outside of society in terms of race and that academia is therefore unbiased; see Staples (1984) for a discussion of this myth and about anti-Black racism in academia. However, implicit biases are commonplace in higher academia (e.g., Staples 1984, Pritlove et al. 2019, Eaton et al. 2020) and have a profound effect on recruitment and retention of BIPOC researchers (Alexander and Hermann 2016).