BUMP Biology was originally conceived as the Black Undergraduate Mentorship Program, which in 2020 emerged from a collaboration between an undergraduate student group project in the Research Cluster on Science and Subjectivity in Columbia’s Center for Science and Society, the Black Alumni Council at Columbia University, and a grassroots group named Biology Trainees Against Exclusion made up of graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates in the Department of Biological Sciences. The program was first awarded a Provost Seed Grant on Addressing Racism, and subsequently a mule-year grant from the Graduate Equity Initiative (GEI) of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as well as support from the Simons Foundation. Most recently, the coordination of the program became a role in the Fellowships in Academic Administration (FAA) program that PhD students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences can apply for. As BUMP Biology has evolved, it continues to stay true to its mission to facilitate access to research experiences and give students from historically underprivileged populations a “bump” in mentorship and a sense of connectedness to the research community at Columbia that will benefit their academic and professional careers.