Hello here! Sorry for the delay in answering, week-end time is always complicated for me, with the boundary conditions (i.e. the family). I would love to see you on-board and also writing about your field here.
Concerning the peer review process, I like to show how we are an example in particle physics. Our main journals are all open access (the community pays for that), all our preprints are available on the arxiv before even getting submitted (and this holds for many many years) and we even have the scipost initiative that is an open access online journal where even the referee reports and the replies to them are publicly available. I wish this could serve as examples :)
By the way, would you be interested in a holding a live event (a la AMA, with video + recording and so on) about a topic related to your field?
RE: Growing our community with STEM live events