In the fall of 2020 and for a period of almost two years, a group of mostly women professors and scientists from the colleges of Natural and Social Sciences began a series of informal discussions on gender equity and inclusion at their home institution, the University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras Campus. Later on, in 2021, faculty from the Schools of Business Administration and Architecture joined the conversations. The short-term goal of the group was to assemble a team to work on a proposal for the NSF-Advance Program on Organization Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions. The long-term goal of the group is to elicit institutional change that would improve faculty recruitment, development, and retention with a special focus on achieving equity and inclusive excellence for women faculty in STEM fields, and more broadly our diverse community.