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2023
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Identity and Diverse Perspectives

Twice as Hard: Exploring Purpose of Womxn of Color in STEM Disciplines

Presented by Stephanie Moreira

This session stems from my research exploring the ways science education has accustomed womxn of color to the isolating, competitive, and exclusive culture of the professional STEMM disciplines. After sharing the many ways we have been broken down by this oppressive culture, I asked a simple question: Why? Why do we continue to do it? What's the reward that we get at the end of the day? At the end of a career? In this interactive session, I offer the same question to you and an opportunity to press pause. Come prepared to be in community with other womxn of color in STEM disciplines to explore the following questions:

  • How might I have internalized a "you have to work twice as hard to get just as far" mentality?
  • How might I be perpetuating an isolating, competitive, and exclusive culture in my area?
  • What cool, amazing, refreshing ideas could come from your discipline if we had the liberty to be creative in our disciplines?

Other Symposium videos:

2020
Starting to Problematize Your Assessment
2020
Diversity and Stratification in Poverty Research
2020
Entrepreneurship as an Act of Social Activism

Presented by Arthur Sintas and Patrice Palmer

2023
Inclusive Teaching Symposium – Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the Classroom

Presented by Akiko Nakamura, Kayleigh Keller, Arlene Nededog, Paul Laybourn

2023
A Glimpse of MURALS
2020
Race, Bias, and Equity Initiative Discussion

With Blanche Hughes, Mary Ontiveros, and Mary Pedersen, Co-Chairs of RBEI