# Pangeo Office Hours

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> [@bradyrx](#):
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> but we need to find a way to recruit people of color and other underrepresented folks to these calls

Good point. It’s something I’m concerned about here. I think we should go ahead with the office hours regardless, but we need a separate, targeted effort to help bring more diversity to this and other Pangeo interaction points.

At the #ShutDownSTEM brainstorming session, a couple of concrete ideas stood out:

- Direct invitations to individual POC to join (requires having some ideas about who you want to invite)
- Outreach through [HBCUs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities), e.g. via geoscience, geography, or computer science departments.

Both could be effective here.

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