{"id":5387,"date":"2019-08-13T14:13:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T21:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2019-08-14T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T16:15:04","slug":"panel-discussion-out-in-stem-pdx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2019\/08\/panel-discussion-out-in-stem-pdx\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel Discussion: Out in Stem PDX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What stereotypes do each of us hold about STEM (Science &#8211; Technology &#8211; Engineering &#8211; Mathematics) professionals? Does the mention of STEM bring to mind someone who is &#8230; Male? Straight? Nerd?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will stop right there. Because, contrary to whatever you might think of <em>me<\/em> (he\/him and nerd), STEM fields are becoming increasingly diverse and (one can only hope) increasingly welcoming to all people with a STEM interest. I can see this happening around me in Portland, Oregon, and especially on the Reed College campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portland&#8217;s <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Q Center (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pdxqcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Q Center<\/a><\/strong> explored this topic one evening last week (<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"&quot;Out in STEM PDX&quot; (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/out-in-stem-pdx-tickets-67040962323#\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Out in STEM PDX&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>, 8 Aug 2019) by gathering an LGBTQ+ panel of STEM professionals and inviting the Portland community to hear their &#8220;stories, insights, and conversations &#8230; about their experiences of navigating the  STEM world.&#8221; Among the panelists was Reed College chemistry professor <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Kelly Chac\u00f3n (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reed.edu\/faculty-profiles\/profiles\/chacon-kelly.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Chac\u00f3n<\/a><\/strong> (she\/her or they) [2015-].<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Tim Hecox (he\/him), a Federal Grants Manager with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) moderated the evening. The full list of panelists included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short (she\/her), a Senior Mechatronic Engineer with  Lora DiCarlo and part-time Instructor at Oregon State University. <\/li><li> Dr. Andre Walcott (he\/him), a Scientific Program Management Scholar  with OHSU&#8217;s Knight Cancer Institute&#8217;s Cancer Early Detection Advanced  Research Center (CEDAR). <\/li><li> Mich\u00e9 Lozano (they\/them), an Ambassador with Latino Outdoors. <\/li><li> <strong>Dr. Kelly Chac\u00f3n<\/strong> (she\/her or they), an Assistant Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry at Reed College. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What stereotypes do each of us hold about STEM (Science &#8211; Technology &#8211; Engineering &#8211; Mathematics) professionals? Does the mention of STEM bring to mind someone who is &#8230; Male? Straight? Nerd? I will stop right there. Because, contrary to&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2019\/08\/panel-discussion-out-in-stem-pdx\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Panel Discussion: Out in Stem PDX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}