Greetings friends,

This project is a result of hearing from students frustrated that too often the experts brought to speak on campus, especially in fields such as STEM, are overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly male. We have had some speaker series on campus that have had only white male speakers! As we all hear frequently, it is hard to imagine what you don’t see.

Of course, it is true that there are fields that have extremely low percentages of experts that are not men and that are not white. But there is not a single field where there is zero diversity. Sometimes we just have to look a little harder. Another thing I think is equally important: we need to train ourselves to refrain from the preference for those who “wrote the book” on any topic. (Does anyone remember the novelist who compared the percentages of men and women authors reviewed in the NYT?) But the politics of how certain voices become acclaimed while others, who may have been doing the same thing and for a long longer, is a discussion for another day!

So this is a list of experts in various fields for those interested in amplifying a diversity of voices. Please see below the categories in use thus far. Suggest other categories -- as you can see mine are not necessarily very good! This is a collaborative effort for the common good.

Best,

Anene

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