Salon 7

CHANGES 2.0

What Collective Actions can Accelerate Change?

October 25, 2023

MAIN QUESTIONS

• How may we leverage international reach, such as that of the social media-based xinSTEM movement?

• How will the changes in social media platforms and politics impact the important new impact that the xinSTEM organizations have seen in employing Twitter and a few other platforms?

• How can the history and gains won by the century of organizing be integrated into current movements such as xinSTEM?

• How can grassroots movements and more established affinity organizations work together on specific goals to accelerate change?

  • What could be useful methods of shared information?

SPEAKERS

Hattie Calwell, Co-Founder, CHANGES

Victor McCrary, Co-Founder, CHANGES

Juan Amador, FASAE, CAE, Executive Director, SACNAS

Saundra Johnson Austin, Director of Student engagement, University of South Florida

RESOURCES 

• National Technical Association

• SACNAS

• CHANGES (Coalition of Hispanic, African and Native Americans for the Next Generation of Engineers and Scientists)

• STEMM Opportunity Alliance

• NOBCChE (National Organization for the advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers)

• NACME (National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering)

• Hattie Carwell biography

• Victor McCrary biography

• Travis York biography

• Saundra Johnson Austin biography

• Changes 2.0 Survey for Society Members

• Alfred P Sloan Foundation