Equity in STEM

Scientists are indigenous, Black, Latinx, people of color, LGBTQIA, disabled, and/or women. However, the majority of senior, high-profile scientists have long been - and continue to be - white, Western, straight, cisgender, cissex (i.e., non-intersex), able-bodied men. This needs to change, and such change is long overdue.

I strongly support efforts to advocate for equity in STEM to support scientists from underrepresented communities. The following shows several ways I am currently working toward equity in STEM.

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Member (and former Steering Committee Member) of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists’s (AABA) Committee on Diversity subcommittee serving 2SLGBTQIAP members & allies

 
 

Steering Committee Member for the American Association of Biological Anthropologists’s (AABA) Statement on Sex

 

Intersex Human Rights

I am also a human rights advocate for intersex people, or those who are born with a combination of traits that are considered traditionally male, traditionally female, and/or atypical for either in the same body. Intersex babies and children are routinely subjected to surgeries and other medical procedures that are for cosmetic purposes and do not track health. 

I am proud to be an intersex person, and have been raising awareness that intersex people exist and have the right to bodily autonomy and bodily integrity since 2010. The following includes some of the work I have done to advocate for intersex human rights.

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Co-Founder and Co-Director of the NYC Annual Intersex Awareness Day Events (2010-2016)

Associate Director (2010-2015)

Interviewee for report on the effects of medical procedures on intersex kids (referred to in report as “Carmen S.”)