#WhyNotMeSTEM
Featured Keynote Speakers
Rebecca S. Bigler is Emeritx Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Ze attended
high school in St. Cloud, Minnesota before receiving a B.A. from Oberlin College and
Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1991. Ze studies the causes and consequences
of social stereotyping and prejudice among children, with a particular focus on gender
and racial attitudes. Ze has also worked to develop and test intervention strategies
aimed at reducing children's social stereotyping and intergroup bias. Hir most recent
work concerns the sexualization of girls and women and the development of political
attitudes during childhood. Ze is a supporter of gender neutral language.
Dr. Megan E. Vinh is a senior technical assistance specialist and member of the leadership team for
the Trohanis Technical Assistance (TA) Projects at Frank Porter Graham Child Development
Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Vinh currently serves
as the PI of the STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education (STEMIE) Center,
and the Co-PI of the Early Childhood Technical Assistance (ECTA) Center. She provides
leadership, technical assistance, and evaluation support around improving state early
intervention and early childhood special education service systems, increasing the
implementation of effective practices, and enhancing outcomes of these programs for
young children and their families. She also works to ensure young children with disabilities
participate in and benefit from high-quality STEM teaching and learning. She specializes
in program evaluation and systems change around access and equity issues, including
reducing early care and education suspensions and expulsions and increasing high-quality
inclusive opportunities. She also served on the Division for Early Childhood (DEC)
Executive Board within the presidential line.
Dr. Chayla Haynes Davison is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration and past recipient of
Texas A&M University's Robert and Mavis Simmons Faculty Fellowship. She earned a Ph.D.
in Higher Education from the University of Denver and also holds a M.A. in College
Student Personnel from Bowling Green State University. Her research centers on critical
and inclusive pedagogy with emphasis on college teaching and faculty development,
Black women in higher education and critical race theory and intersectionality scholarship
and methodologies. She is co-editor of Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power:
White Faculty's Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms (Peter Lang)
and Race Equity and the Learning Environment: The Global Relevance of Critical and
Inclusive Pedagogies in Higher Education (Stylus). Her scholarship also appears in
the Review of Educational Research, Educational Researcher, the Journal of Higher
Education, Teachers College Record, the International Journal of Qualitative Studies
in Education and the Journal of Negro Education. She is the junior scholar recipient
of the Association for the Study of Higher Education's (ASHE) Council for Ethnic Participation's
Mildred Garcia Award for Exemplary Scholarship. Additionally, the Comparative & International
Education Society's African Diaspora Special Interest Group (CIES ADSIG), an affiliate
of the World Education Research Association (WERA), named Dr. Haynes Davison a 2020
Emerging Scholar. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of Education and Development
in the Caribbean of the University of the West Indies. And prior to the professoriate,
Dr. Haynes Davison served the higher education and student affairs profession for
15 years, as a former Director of Orientation and Family Programs and Services, Director
of Student Affairs and Career Services, and Director of Student Activities.
Dr. Bryce E. Hughes is an assistant professor in education at Montana State University. He earned his
Ph.D. in education from UCLA, his M.A. in student development administration from
Seattle University, and his B.S. in general engineering from Gonzaga University. His
research interests encompass diversity and equity in higher education, focusing on
STEM education and LGBTQ issues. After finding that LGBQ students are 7% less likely
to persist in a STEM major, he was awarded an NSF CAREER grant to study the participation
of LGBTQ students in STEM, analyzing students' social networks, comparing STEM degree
completion rates, and exploring the intersection of LGBTQ and STEM identities. In
his other research, Dr. Hughes has studied LGBTQ grassroots leadership at a Catholic
university, leadership development in engineering students, science communication
in STEM graduate students, and the use of Minecraft to improve middle grades students'
spatial reasoning skills.
Adriana Umaña-Taylor, Ph.D. is the Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Professor of Education in the Harvard Graduate School
of Education. Her work seeks to apply developmental science in a manner that reduces
ethnic-racial disparities in psychological and academic adjustment and, in turn, promotes
social justice. Dr. Umaña-Taylor has successfully collaborated with school districts
for over 20 years to design and implement large-scale, longitudinal, school-based
data collection efforts with high school students. She is Principal Investigator of
multiple, longitudinal research projects funded by the National Science Foundation,
the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, the William
T. Grant Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. She developed the Identity Project,
a school-based intervention curriculum that engages adolescents in the developmental
processes of ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution. Her recent studies
focus on testing the efficacy and effectiveness of the Identity Project; developing
professional development programming to prepare educators to implement the Identity
Project with their students; understanding how adolescents develop their ethnic and
racial identities in the context of their peer relationships within the school setting;
testing how the negative physiological effects of race-based stress can be reduced
by intervening in adolescents' ethnic-racial identity development; and exploring the
universal nature of ethnic-racial identity development as a promotive factor for adolescents
in Latin American and European countries. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed
journal articles and handbook chapters, and her books include Below the Surface: Talking
with Teens about Race, Ethnicity, and Identity (with Rivas-Drake; Princeton University
Press, 2019); Studying Ethnic Identity: Methodological and Conceptual Approaches across
Disciplines (co-edited with Santos; American Psychological Association, 2015); and
Studying Ethnic Minority and Economically Disadvantaged Populations: Methodological
Challenges and Best Practices (with Knight and Roosa; American Psychological Association,
2009). Dr. Umaña-Taylor has served as associate editor for the Journal of Research
on Adolescence, as a member of the Executive Council of the Society for Research on
Adolescence, and on the Board of Directors for the National Council on Family Relations.
Her contributions to mentorship and student training have been recognized with national
awards such as the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence
and the Marie F. Peters Award from the National Council on Family Relations. She is
an inducted Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for
Psychological Science, and the National Council on Family Relations.
Schedule of Events*
Events, unless otherwise stated, are held in the Overton Hotel, Sunset B Conference
Room.
All times are Central Time.
*details may change slightly
**All attendees are welcome
Sunday, May 22, 2022
5:00pm – 6:00pm | Welcome & Check-in – Hospitality Room 409, Overton** |
6:00pm – 7:30pm | Innovative Methodologies Session (Canyon Room, Overton) w/Invited Keynote Speakers & Stakeholders (Heavy appetizers served; Meet-and-greet follows) Dr. Jeong-Hee Kim STEM and Narrative: Engaging, Enriching, Empowering STEM through Narrative Inquiry |
Monday, May 23, 2022 (All Attendees Welcome)
8:00am – 9:00am | Registration Check-in/Information – (Lobby Outside Sunset B) |
8:00am – 9:00am | Breakfast (Lobby Outside Sunset B) |
9:00am – 9:15am | Welcome from Dr. Elizabeth Sharp; Conference Framing and Logistics |
9:15am – 10:45am | Dr. Rebecca Bigler Keynote & Discussion Social Stereotyping and Prejudice in Childhood: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for Diversifying STEM |
10:45 – 11:00am | Coffee Break (Lobby Outside Sunset B) |
11:00am – 12:00pm | Lunch – Overton |
12:00pm – 1:30pm | Dr. Megan E. Vinh Keynote & Discussion Let's Start Now! Engaging Young Children with Disabilities in STEM |
1:30pm – 1:45pm | Coffee Break (Lobby Outside Sunset B) |
1:45pm – 2:30pm | #WhyNotMeSTEM talks |
2:30pm – 3:30pm | Dr. Chayla Haynes-Davison Virtual Keynote & Discussion The Role of Racial Consciousness: Considerations for the STEM Classroom |
3:30pm - 3:45pm | Coffee Break + Snacks (Lobby Outside Sunset B) |
3:45pm – 5:00pm | Breakout Sessions (with at least one virtual session) |
5:00pm –6:30pm | Social Hour with Heavy Appetizers** |
7:15pm | Dinner Session (Meet in Main Overton Lobby, Keynote Speakers & Stakeholders only, please) |
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 (All Attendees Welcome)
8:00am – 9:00am | Breakfast (Lobby Outside Sunset B) |
9:00am – 9:15am | Welcome from Dr. Elizabeth Sharp; Announcements |
9:15am – 10:45am | Dr. Adriana Umaña-Taylor Keynote & Discussion Ethnic-Racial Identity Intervention: Facilitating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Promoting Adolescents' Academic Adjustment |
11:00am – 12:00pm | Lunch – Overton |
12:00pm – 1:30pm | Dr. Bryce Hughes Keynote & Discussion "I kinda want to be that exception": Recruiting and Retaining LGBTQ+ Students in STEM |
1:30pm – 1:45pm | Coffee Break (Lobby Outside Sunset B) |
1:45pm – 3:00pm | #WhyNotMeSTEM Talks |
3:00pm – 3:15pm | Coffee Break + Snacks (Lobby Outside Sunset B) |
3:15pm – 4:30pm | Breakout Sessions (with at least one virtual session) |
4:30pm – 5:00pm | Conference Closing Remarks |
5:30pm | Dinner at West Tech Club (Meet in Main Lobby, Keynote Speakers & Stakeholders only, please) |
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 (Keynotes & Stakeholders Only, Please)
8:00am – 9:00am | Breakfast (Canyon Room) |
9:00am – 10:45am | Idea Station Room, Working Groups (Canyon Room) |
10:45am – 11:00am | Debriefing & Post-Conference Goals (Canyon Room) |
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