1.  Providing balanced, comprehensive, and accurate information.

• Dedication to just decision-making processes not the advocacy for or against a given biotechnology.

• Balanced inclusion of multiple knowledge systems (including indigenous and local knowledge, natural and social sciences, humanities, and the arts).

• Expanding definitions of expertise beyond technical and scientific experts.

• Presenting information that is transparent, credible, and has integrity.

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2.  Creating a safe, welcoming, diverse, and open community for the exploration of ideas.

• Adhering to a Code of Conduct to guarantee respect, recognition of power imbalances, and accountability.

• Providing an accessible platform.

• Giving attention to the power of narratives and words (recognizing different perceptions of language).

• Being committed to establishing shared understandings; finding a connectedness, not a consensus.

• Ensuring diverse representation. 

• Creating sustained relationships. 

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3.  Actively countering systemic inequality and injustice and dismantling systemic injustice, inequity, and structures of white supremacy.

• Always recognizing histories of structural injustice and their legacies today. 

• Designing research questions with the clear intention of dismantling systems of injustice, inequity, and structures of oppression.

• Recognizing the interconnectedness and interdependence of different justice movements.

• Standing in solidarity with our partners working towards justice and using our platform and privilege to amplify their cause and building capacity for change.

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4.  Recognizing our responsibility to all human and nonhuman life - past, present, and future.

• Dedicated to giving voice to those that don't have voice.  

• Appreciating the interconnectedness of all living and nonliving things and our shared planetary future.

• A willingness to see beyond the human to appreciate the intrinsic value of non-humans and ecosystems.

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5.  Continuous learning and humility.

• Dedicating time to reflect on a personal, institutional, and societal level.

• Demonstrating an openness to new ideas, feedback and critique. 

• Being accountable by acknowledging and repairing our mistakes.