Lisette Torres-Gerald
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Twitter: @LisetteETorres3
Lisette Torres-Gerald is a trained scientist, educator, and scholar-activist whose work focuses on addressing racial and gender inequity in science, specifically, and higher education, generally. She is interested in how power and privilege influence the social dynamics of the scientific community as well as the experiences of women of color in science. As a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at Iowa State University, she is currently examining how scientist bloggers of color disrupt or maintain master narratives surrounding knowledge production and dissemination. She also works full-time as the Assistant Director of the Cooper Foundation for Academic Resources and Supplemental Instruction Supervisor at Nebraska Wesleyan University (NWU). At NWU, she coordinates the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program collaboratively with colleagues to recruit and retain students of color in science disciplines.
Her relationship to the mission and vision of the National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (NCLD) is both personal and professional. She identifies as a Latinx with a non-apparent disability, has siblings with non-apparent disabilities, and has a parent who is visually impaired. Her interest in scholar activism, intersectionality, and Critical Race Theory as well as her lived experience as a Latinx with a disability in the academy has inspired her to work in collaboration with colleagues nationwide to found NCLD. The strengths that she brings to NCLD include connections Dis/ability critical race studies (DisCrit) scholars, familiarity with DisCrit theory, editorial/writing experience, experience with building academic/educational organizations and programs, workshop development and implementation, and conference planning.
[email protected]
Twitter: @LisetteETorres3
Lisette Torres-Gerald is a trained scientist, educator, and scholar-activist whose work focuses on addressing racial and gender inequity in science, specifically, and higher education, generally. She is interested in how power and privilege influence the social dynamics of the scientific community as well as the experiences of women of color in science. As a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at Iowa State University, she is currently examining how scientist bloggers of color disrupt or maintain master narratives surrounding knowledge production and dissemination. She also works full-time as the Assistant Director of the Cooper Foundation for Academic Resources and Supplemental Instruction Supervisor at Nebraska Wesleyan University (NWU). At NWU, she coordinates the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program collaboratively with colleagues to recruit and retain students of color in science disciplines.
Her relationship to the mission and vision of the National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (NCLD) is both personal and professional. She identifies as a Latinx with a non-apparent disability, has siblings with non-apparent disabilities, and has a parent who is visually impaired. Her interest in scholar activism, intersectionality, and Critical Race Theory as well as her lived experience as a Latinx with a disability in the academy has inspired her to work in collaboration with colleagues nationwide to found NCLD. The strengths that she brings to NCLD include connections Dis/ability critical race studies (DisCrit) scholars, familiarity with DisCrit theory, editorial/writing experience, experience with building academic/educational organizations and programs, workshop development and implementation, and conference planning.