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Why Evidence-Based Climate Justice Includes Abolition

Abolition climate justice asks us to reimagine resiliency and sustainability beyond technological solutions.

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Climate Justice is Social Justice

You cannot have climate justice without social justice or Black liberation or Indigenous sovereignty.

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Becoming a Better Advocate In a Time of Isolation

I am still learning what lifelong, everyday solidarity looks like for me, especially as a STEM advocate and educator.

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Lessons Learned From Black In Neuro Week

The response from the Black in Neuro community was incredible, and beyond anything we could’ve imagined.

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Reinventing Myself in a Pandemic: From Immunologist to Science Communicator

This pandemic has shown the power that we Puerto Rican and Latin American scientists have when we unify our voices for the common good.

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Channeling Rage When I Don’t Have a Ride to the Protest

I realized that there was one space I could still access from my apartment: the academy.

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Why young people in STEM should mobilize for a Green New Deal

I never thought I’d have to choose between doing my schoolwork and fighting for a livable future.

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Bringing Your Interdisciplinary Background and Identity to Science Advocacy

In many of my roles as a food systems scholar and public servant, I noticed my uniqueness in these spaces.

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Science Advocacy: Going Virtual for Earth Day 50

Three years since the first March for Science, the importance of science and evidence-based policies still cannot be understated.

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More Than Just a Scientist: My Journey Weaving Science and Politics

My work is applied and human-focused, which also means it is inherently political.

Finding Myself in STEM and Public Service as An African, Black American

My identity as a Kenyan-American is tied with my duty to serve the general society as an epidemiologist, to work in public service, and to advance global health.

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Scholar Activism in a STEM Career

How could I continue as a respected scholar but still make a difference?

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How Ice Carved My Scientific and Political Identity

As someone who is educated in the science behind climate and environmental change, it would be wrong of me to not shout from the rooftops.

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Showing Up for Black Women’s Lives

As members of the STEM community, why do we continue to fail Black women?

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To Be the Curator, and Not the Curated

One of the most freeing things I’ve realized as I’ve grown as an academic is that archaeology can be radically changed into something so much better.

Female Scientists in the Diaspora

There are endless ways of being Puerto Rican and I am creating a new one.

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Activism: Necessity or Choice?

Yes, it was true that I had entered graduate school for the love of science. Then why did I continue to invest time and effort into “unnecessary” diversity work?