LibGuides: Finding Experts Guide: Diverse Expert Databases

The Importance of Using DIverse Sources

Reporters should always be trying to challenge their assumptions about things. If we’re talking to the same people all the time, we’re not challenging our assumptions.” Source: AJR, June 2010, The Quote Machines

Some tips from NPR’s Education Team for finding diverse sources for your reporting, including some of these tools.

Media Companies Are (Still) Failing When It Comes to Diversity

Diverse Source Directories

Databases of Diverse Experts

NPR's Diverse Source Directory by Expertise
Find experts from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the media.
Multicultural Marketing and Diversity Experts Directory
Online directory that includes companies with expertise in marketing to different cultural and lifestyle markets such as Hispanic, Asian American, and African American, women, and LGBT consumers and businesses.

Women Expert Databases

SheSource
Database of media-experienced women experts who we connect to journalists, bookers and producers.
Reflect Reality - Women Expert Sources
Links to Directories of Women Experts from Around the World and Across Many Disciplines
InterviewHer
Connecting the Media with Women Experts on Conflict, Peace and Security
Foreign Policy Interrupted
Women experts in various areas in foreign policy.

Experts Who are People of Color

Database of Diverse Databases from Editors of Color
Links to Experts Who are People of Color
Women, nonbinary and POC media experts
Public database of women, nonbinary, and people of color who are experts on the media. The list includes names and areas of expertise;
United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
America’s largest Hispanic business organization, representing over 4.7 million Hispanic-owned businesses.

LGBTQ+ Experts

500 Queer Scientists Database
self-submitted bios and stories intended to boost the recognition and awareness of queer scientists.
Sociologists for Trans Justice
Supporting Trans, Non-binary & Intersex Scholarship and Understanding

Diverse Science & Technology Experts

Request a Woman Scientist
A resource for journalists, educators, policy makers and others seeking the expertise of women and gender minorities STEMM professionals.
Diverse Sources
database of experts to include more underrepresented voices and perspectives in your science, health and environment work on deadline.
sourcelist(women+)
Database of diverse experts in technology policy.
AcademiaNet: Profiles of Leading Women Scientists
Database of profiles of excellent female researchers from all disciplines