Not at the Table began with a simple observation: faculty from marginalized backgrounds are routinely invited into the academy and just as routinely left out of the rooms where decisions about their futures are made. The book gathers those experiences honestly — the mentorship that never materialized, the service that was never counted, the reviews that moved the goalposts.

But a book closes. The conditions it describes do not. This space exists to keep the conversation going: connecting the scholarship to practical resources, facilitated workshops, and institutional tools that departments and leaders can actually use.

Whether you are a faculty member documenting your own path, a chair rethinking how service is distributed, or a provost examining retention, the work here is meant to be picked up and put to use.