  While AAPT and many other physics organizations have been introducing a
series of effective practices around diversity and inclusion at the national
level in recent years, it was wondered if these were being adopted at the local
level. It is hoped that section members and Section Representatives will decide
to further expand the actions of national leadership to make their own section
meeting more inclusive. In order to assess if this was in fact the case, a
survey on diversity practices that have been used the the national level and
can be implemented at the section level was sent to AAPT's Section Reps mailing
list in the spring of 2018, with a follow-up survey in winter 2020. Feedback in
both cycles suggested that a guide for section leadership would be useful. The
Northern California/Nevada section has made progress in implementing some of
the effective practices from the national meetings into our local section
meetings, we share these efforts in the hope that they assist our fellow
sections.
