Diversity in STEM
Download MP3In an ongoing effort to foster dialogue and educate our community on racial justice issues,
Falmouth Community Television (FCTV) presents the 21st episode in a series of programs entitled
THE Conversation. Co-hosted and co-produced by Onjalé Scott Price and The Rev. Will Mebane, the series offers a timely dialogue on race. The topic of this month’s episode of THE Conversation is “Diversity in STEM.”
Ms. Scott Price is the COO of Mizar Imaging in Woods Hole and Vice Chair of the Falmouth Select Board.
The Rev. Mebane is the rector of Falmouth’s St. Barnabas’s Episcopal Church.
This month’s panelists are Ambrose Jearld Jr. and Catalina Martinez. Gabriel Duran and Monét Murphy also appear on the program.
The discussion focuses on the questions: “Why isn't there more racial diversity in the STEM fields?”
and “How do we increase diversity in the STEM fields?”
Ambrose Jearld Jr. spent over 39 years as a fisheries scientist and a decade as the Director of Academic Education at NOAA Fisheries in Woods Hole. Ambrose was the first chair of the Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee, a collaboration started in 2004 to promote diversity and inclusion throughout the scientific community in Woods Hole. He was also the Co-founder of the Partnership Education Program and served as its Director from its inception in 2009 until his retirement in 2016. In 2017, the Woods Hole scientific community launched an annual lectureship named in his honor. He frequently speaks on diversity in the earth sciences, including more academic perspectives, and how his upbringing has influenced his understanding of the world.
Catalina Martinez is the Regional Program Manager for NOAA Ocean Exploration in Rhode Island. A certified diversity professional with three graduate degrees from the University of Rhode Island, Ms. Martinez began her ocean science career 20 years ago, helping to formalize and manage important regional NOAA partnerships, and spent many years working on telepresence-enabled expeditions to explore little-known and unknown ocean areas. Ms. Martinez also engages in various local, regional, and national efforts to mitigate the barriers to entry, persistence, advancement, and success for underrepresented and minoritized scholars into STEM fields. She has been honored with several awards for this work, including the URI Diversity Award for Staff/Administrator Excellence in Leadership and Service in 2010, and was recognized by the YWCA as one of their 2015 Women of Achievement in Rhode Island for promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity. In 2019, Ms. Martinez was awarded the Women of Color in STEM Diversity Leadership in Government Award for sustained leadership in creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive Federal workforce. Most recently, Ms. Martinez received the 2022 URI Graduate School of Oceanography Distinguished Achievement Award for excellence in professional achievement, leadership contributions, community service, and philanthropy.
For More Information check out the articles below
Hostile Obstacle Course article.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00868-0
NSF study.
https://osf.io/xb57u/
Falmouth Community Television (FCTV) presents the 21st episode in a series of programs entitled
THE Conversation. Co-hosted and co-produced by Onjalé Scott Price and The Rev. Will Mebane, the series offers a timely dialogue on race. The topic of this month’s episode of THE Conversation is “Diversity in STEM.”
Ms. Scott Price is the COO of Mizar Imaging in Woods Hole and Vice Chair of the Falmouth Select Board.
The Rev. Mebane is the rector of Falmouth’s St. Barnabas’s Episcopal Church.
This month’s panelists are Ambrose Jearld Jr. and Catalina Martinez. Gabriel Duran and Monét Murphy also appear on the program.
The discussion focuses on the questions: “Why isn't there more racial diversity in the STEM fields?”
and “How do we increase diversity in the STEM fields?”
Ambrose Jearld Jr. spent over 39 years as a fisheries scientist and a decade as the Director of Academic Education at NOAA Fisheries in Woods Hole. Ambrose was the first chair of the Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee, a collaboration started in 2004 to promote diversity and inclusion throughout the scientific community in Woods Hole. He was also the Co-founder of the Partnership Education Program and served as its Director from its inception in 2009 until his retirement in 2016. In 2017, the Woods Hole scientific community launched an annual lectureship named in his honor. He frequently speaks on diversity in the earth sciences, including more academic perspectives, and how his upbringing has influenced his understanding of the world.
Catalina Martinez is the Regional Program Manager for NOAA Ocean Exploration in Rhode Island. A certified diversity professional with three graduate degrees from the University of Rhode Island, Ms. Martinez began her ocean science career 20 years ago, helping to formalize and manage important regional NOAA partnerships, and spent many years working on telepresence-enabled expeditions to explore little-known and unknown ocean areas. Ms. Martinez also engages in various local, regional, and national efforts to mitigate the barriers to entry, persistence, advancement, and success for underrepresented and minoritized scholars into STEM fields. She has been honored with several awards for this work, including the URI Diversity Award for Staff/Administrator Excellence in Leadership and Service in 2010, and was recognized by the YWCA as one of their 2015 Women of Achievement in Rhode Island for promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity. In 2019, Ms. Martinez was awarded the Women of Color in STEM Diversity Leadership in Government Award for sustained leadership in creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive Federal workforce. Most recently, Ms. Martinez received the 2022 URI Graduate School of Oceanography Distinguished Achievement Award for excellence in professional achievement, leadership contributions, community service, and philanthropy.
For More Information check out the articles below
Hostile Obstacle Course article.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00868-0
NSF study.
https://osf.io/xb57u/
