{"id":58465,"date":"2019-07-11T19:17:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58465"},"modified":"2019-07-12T12:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T12:21:31","slug":"how-this-theoretical-physicist-is-advocating-for-women-of-colour-in-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58465","title":{"rendered":"How this theoretical physicist is advocating for women of colour in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\/article\/how-this-theoretical-physicist-is-advocating-for-women-of-colour-in-stem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>How this theoretical physicist is advocating for women of colour in STEM<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tvo<\/a><br \/>\nToronto, Canada<br \/>\n2019-07-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carrletta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Carla Lucchetta<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\/article\/how-this-theoretical-physicist-is-advocating-for-women-of-colour-in-stem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/full_width_1280\/public\/media-library\/taits_prescod-weinstein.jpg?itok=Egyj0_th\" alt=\"Nam Kiwanuka and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\/author\/nam-kiwanuka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nam Kiwanuka<\/a> interviews theoretical physicist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cprescodweinstein.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chanda Prescod-Weinstein<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cprescodweinstein.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chanda Prescod-Weinstein<\/a> talks to <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\/current-affairs\/tag\/the-agenda-in-the-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Agenda in the Summer<\/a><em> about her identity as a queer Black woman, the importance of mentorship, and why advocacy is a vital component of her work<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/18140038001\/HJR5gvfVf_default\/index.html?videoId=6052574023001\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What makes a person dream of becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theoretical_physics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theoretical physicist<\/a>? In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cprescodweinstein.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chanda Prescod-Weinstein\u2019s<\/a> case, it was growing up with activist parents. Her mother, Margaret Prescod, has headed up various advocacy groups, including <a href=\"https:\/\/uia.org\/s\/or\/en\/1100000025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Black Women for Wages for Housework<\/a>, and is the host and producer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpfk.org\/on-air\/margaret-prescod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sojourner Truth<\/em><\/a>, a public-affairs radio show in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles<\/a>. Her father, Sam Weinstein, is a labour organizer.<\/p>\n<p>As she tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\/author\/nam-kiwanuka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nam Kiwanuka<\/a> on <em>The Agenda in the Summer<\/em>, \u201cI spent my entire childhood being confronted with things that weren\u2019t going right in the world and things that needed to be better about the world. And I think part of what was attractive to me about doing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cosmology<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Particle_physics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">particle physics<\/a> was here was a thing that was beyond these human concerns \u2026 something that was bigger than all of us but interested all of us. Where do we come from: Why are we here? These really big esoteric questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"300\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\/article\/how-this-theoretical-physicist-is-advocating-for-women-of-colour-in-stem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\/sites\/default\/files\/media-library\/taits_prescod-weinstein4.jpg\" alt=\"a couple and their child\" width=\"300\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\/sites\/default\/files\/media-library\/taits_prescod-weinstein4.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cprescodweinstein.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chanda<\/a> at age four with her parents Sam Weinstein and Margaret Prescod<br \/>\n\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<em>(Los Angeles Times\/ucla.edu)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Now a physics professor at the University of New Hampshire, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has conducted research on such topics as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">axions<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dark_matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dark matter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_field_theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quantum fields<\/a>. She\u2019s also an advocate for Black women, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LGBT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LGBTQ<\/a> people in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STEM<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\/article\/how-this-theoretical-physicist-is-advocating-for-women-of-colour-in-stem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How this theoretical physicist is advocating for women of colour in STEM tvo Toronto, Canada 2019-07-11 Carla Lucchetta Nam Kiwanuka interviews theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Chanda Prescod-Weinstein talks to The Agenda in the Summer about her identity as a queer Black woman, the importance of mentorship, and why advocacy is a vital component of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,666,13743,8,842,25],"tags":[29986,21524,29989,29987,29990,29988,29984,29985],"class_list":["post-58465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-gaylesbian","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-videos","category-women","tag-carla-lucchetta","tag-chanda-prescod-weinstein","tag-margaret-prescod","tag-nam-kiwanuka","tag-sam-weinstein","tag-the-agenda-in-the-summer","tag-tvo","tag-tvo-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58465"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58475,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58465\/revisions\/58475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}