Initiatives

Salon 5

HEAR OUR VOICE in Collaboration with SACNAS

STEM leaders share effective strategies for achieving institutional change across academia, industry, policy and the public to advance an equitable STEM ecosystem.

October 27, 2022

MAIN QUESTIONS 

  • What about STEM Boomerang can be scaled or speaks to community building that results in collective action?

  • What institutional change is most important to #AccelerateDiversity in STEM?

  • How would you revamp funding in STEM that increases #AccesstoCapital for underrepresented groups?

  • Do you have access to capital to advocate for DEI change?

  • How do we create #LeadershipPathways for underrepresented groups in STEM that don't lead to unicorn positions, but are realistic roadmaps for career advancement?

  • What local institutional change is most important to #AccelerateDiversity in STEM?

SPEAKERS 

Patricia Silveyra, Anthony D. Pantaleoni Eminent Scholar, Department Chair, Professor, Indiana University, School of Public Health‐Bloomington

Maggie Werner-Washburne, Founder and Partner, STEM, Boomerang

Yaihara Fortis, Associate Director of Postdoctoral Affairs and Trainee Diversity Initiatives, Sloan Kettering Institute

Lee Bitsóí, Vice President for DEI, Brandeis University

Nataly Manjarrez Orduno, Global Lead, People and Business Resource Group, Bristol Myers Squibb

Lilliam Casillas, Professor, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao

RESOURCES 

coming soon