From WinGRSS to IDEA: Thinking More Broadly About Diversity and Inclusion [Women in GRSS]

Moving into 2020 marks a number of milestones (if only based on its simplified numerology). The beginning of a new year and a new decade is always a good opportunity for retrospection, especially when progress has been made and is underway. The year 2019 marked both the last year that the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Women in GRSS (WinGRSS) would be a committee on its own and the launch of the Inspire, Develop, Empower, Advance (IDEA) Committee (http://www.grss-ieee.org/community/idea/). WinGRSS has not gone away. Rather, it is now part of IDEA, which represents a broader and stronger mission of diversity and inclusion within the GRSS.