The MINDS Program focuses attention on diversity individuals who are early in their careers as faculty members in the neurosciences. Evidence suggests that whereas there is still a great need to hire more such individuals into junior faculty positions in the biomedical sciences, there is an even greater need to help these individuals achieve professional success, including a strong record of publications, significant funding, and promotion to tenure and senior positions (Fang et al., 2000). This holds true for the more specific area of neuroscience, as well (Stricker, 2010).  After years of training, these individuals are now poised to make significant contributions to research and to the training of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral fellows. However, many/most are not retained within the field, let alone rise through the ranks to achieve promotion and tenure (Connolly, et al., 2015). Therefore, it is at this point that change in the workforce can occur most rapidly.