The Multimessenger Diversity Network: Creating diverse and inclusive science collaborations

The Mutlimessenger Diversity Network (MDN) is a nascent project funded by the National Science Foundation in the United States to establish a community of representatives from multimessenger astronomy research collaborations focused on increasing equity, diversity and inclusion in the field. The goals of the MDN are to share knowledge, experience, training and develop resources and practices around broadening participation in astronomy and astrophysics. This proceeding provides a brief introduction to the project and the participating collaborations. The structure of the MDN, based on community of practice theory, is described. Examples of the first outputs from the MDN and information on how to access resources and/or join are provided.