Warning: I am a professional squeaky wheel and feather ruffler. As an extrovert, I’m willing to advocate for others when there is an issue. This is especially true when I’m involved in conversations around a topic I feel is important. I have been criticized for “talking out of turn” and “not respecting hierarchy” in the
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“Stakeholder” has a problem
I’m one of those people who, once I hear that a term is problematic, I am constantly noticing it in what I’m reading, hearing and saying (I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, as a Midwesterner it is SO hard to get rid of the phrase “you guys” from my vocabulary, but I
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Girls in STEM – From Pledging Support to Taking Action
I have to be honest, I’m frustrated about progress when it comes to girls in STEM, which I’ve been actively involved with for more than 2 decades. 👩🔬 Almost 20 years ago I became a trainer with SciGirls. ☁ Before that, I was a STEM role model as a female TV meteorologist. ➕ Even earlier,
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Equal Pay Day (but not entirely)
I missed Equal Pay Day a coupe weeks ago (March 12), but like many women, this day isn’t accurate for me. Wait! You’re a white cis-gender woman…how can this be??? This date roughly represents how much longer U. S. women as a whole need to work in order to receive pay equal to men. I
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Yes…And…
It’s the day after #InternationalWomensDay, and on LinkedIn I read and shared a significant amount of valid push back against it early in the day. But as I mulled it over, I came to a realization that I needed a more expansive response. I’m drawing from an improv technique where you take what your fellow
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Listen to Indigenous Women Scientists
We don’t always know what we don’t know… You may need to read that a couple times before it makes sense. These are Unknown-Unknowns, as they are called in the Rumsfield Matrix (Uncertainty Project explanation). This can be the place where the most well-intentioned ally engaged in diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging work can
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Cloudy with a 20% Chance of Uncertainty
One of my projects went live today! The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science reached out tome, in the spring to see if I’d be interested in contributing to their blog, The Link and I jumped at the opportunity! The first of the videos I’ll be creating for them went live last week! https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/alda-center/thelink/posts/Cloudy_with_a_Chance.php
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