The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, theoretical physics postdoctoral associate at the University of Washington, Seattle.
As of 2010, women of color represented less than 6% of faculty members with STEM doctorates at four-year colleges and universities. This underrepresentation increases up the career ladder of the academy — at the rank of full professor, women of color constitute only 2.5% of faculty.
Despite public attention focused on addressing this underrepresentation, the voices of women of color who are in the STEM professoriate pipeline — or have exited — are often missing from the discussion. Confirmed participants include Dr. Evelyn Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, and Dr. Jami Valentine, Physicist, Advocate, and founder of the website African American Women in Physics.
To register, click here. And join the discussion on Twitter with the hashtag #WOCinSTEM during the event.