Steph Pollock (pronouns: she/her) is the Associate Publisher, Community Initiatives at the American Psychological Association (APA), where she drives strategy and publishing partner engagement for the APA Journals program and serves as the Journals program lead for equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives. With more than ten years of experience in scholarly publishing and a master’s degree in publishing from The George Washington University, Steph is committed to improving equity in both the field of psychology and in the scholarly publishing industry. She is a co-author on the C4DISC Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations, a member of the Association for Women in Psychology, and has served on SSP’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee since 2018.
This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at “Retrogression Research and Limiting Diversity: the Impact of the Pandemic on Scholarly Publishing’s Inequities”
Katie Einhorn, Steph Pollock, and Nick Paolini discuss APA’s efforts to collect demographic information during manuscript submission. In this interview, they share what they did, why, how, and what this means for other publishing organizations.