It was an honor to be a panelist for this November 17, 2020 conversation, sponsored by the DC chapter of the National Association of Science Writers and moderated by Emily Conover.
Here’s DCSWA’s description of the panel that accompanies the YouTube video:
Audiences for many forms of science communication skew predominantly white. This panel will discuss the origins of the lack of racial and ethnic diversity in audiences and strategies for how newsrooms and individual writers can work to remove barriers and better serve and engage communities of color. Panelists: Juliet M. Beverly, Content Manager at BrainFacts.org Mónica Feliú-Mójer, Director of Communications and Science Outreach for Ciencia Puerto Rico Kim Pearson, Associate Professor of Journalism at The College of New Jersey Andrea Wenzel, Assistant Professor of Journalism at Temple University Moderator: Emily Conover, Physics Reporter at Science News (Note: the gray panelist image indicates a co-host present to help with logistics.)
Resources shared by the panelists:
- Broadening perspectives on broadening participation in STEM https://www.informalscience.org/broad…
- Decolonising Science Reading List https://medium.com/@chanda/decolonisi…
- Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities: https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-Jour…
- ‘Leavers’: results from a survey of 101 former journalists of color: https://source.opennews.org/articles/…
- Teaching race across disciplines using interdisciplinary collaboration https://kimpearson.net/teaching-about…
- Background To Breakthrough http://bit.ly/backgroundtobreakthrough
- Resolve Philly: https://resolvephilly.org
- Covering Germantown: the road to community engagement https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_report…
- Community-Centered Journalism https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books…
- The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity by Lewis Raven Wallace https://www.amazon.com/View-Somewhere…
- The View from Somewhere (podcast) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…
- Indigenous STEM Twitter list https://twitter.com/i/lists/793511058…