"UMBC has recently embarked on an innovative 5-year graduate program, “The Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research in Ecology and Evolution”(ICARE). The NSF-funded initiative recruits and prepares under-represented minority students for careers in environmental problem-solving by placing them into teams with both an academic supervisor, a professional scientist from a regional agency, and a community stakeholder. Effective problem-solving will require facilitation of diverse perspectives in the groups and accommodate the complex intersections of each participant’s ethnicity, discipline, experience and agency. To help the teams interweave these intersections with the intellectual and systemic landscapes of the problem, UMBC are collaborating with CoNavigator and have placed their tool at the centre of these processes. In a 30-minute multimedia presentation, UMBC will present the ICARE program and the challenges it presents, while CoNavigator will show the steps and methods they have devised (including a new augmented reality function) to address inequalities in collaboration and enable more inclusive methods of collaboration by building shared, interwoven understandings of the intellectual, cultural and systemic landscape as perceived by each participant."