To celebrate Pride Month, Gladstone is featuring panelists from Out in Science by asking them to answer five questions.
Sam Long (he/him) is a Chinese-American transgender man and high school science teacher in Denver, Colorado. He cofounded GenderInclusiveBiology.com, a website for gender-inclusive biology curriculum resources, as well as the Colorado chapter of the Transgender Educators Network.
Teaching high school life science topics in a way that is accurate and inclusive of diverse gender, sex, and sexuality.
It’s important for me to be an out transgender science teacher so I can model to all students that identity matters in science, and we learn best when we bring our whole selves into the community.
Show your allyship in a continual, visible, and vocal way. Interrogate the practices that you use to hire, evaluate, and retain staff.
Ben Barres, a neurobiologist at Stanford, was the first trans scientist I knew of. When I was a college student, I reached out to him via email for advice on navigating a career. He encouraged me to be open about my identity, to choose the work that I loved, and not to limit myself based on assumptions of whether or not I would “fit in.”
I’m reading the book “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” by physicist Richard P. Feynman.
Rama Dajani, a research associate in Alex Marson's lab, discusses her early exposure to biotechnology, her research on HIV, and advice she has for women aspiring to pursue science.
Research Associates Committee Profile Marson LabIn this profile, learn more about the path that led Alicer Andrew to biomedical research, her work on HIV in the Roan lab, and advice she has for other Black scientists
Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Education and Research Development Affairs Graduate Students and Postdocs Profile DiversityGraduate Student Emily Bulger describes her work in the Bruneau Lab, her family roots in science, and the scientist she'd like to have a conversation with
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