Undergraduate facilitators of informal STEM education programs use and develop community cultural wealth in their roles

Informal STEM education (ISE) programs provide mentorship and opportunities to explore STEM concepts and practices outside of traditional classroom settings and have shown promise in broadening participation, particularly among youth with systemically excluded identities in STEM. Many ISE programs engage undergraduate students as facilitators and near-peer mentors for the youth participants. Our study uses the Community Cultural Wealth framework to identify the ways in which undergraduate Studen