My Fave Queer Chemist

Pride Month may be over but MFQC Pride Summer is still underway! Welcome back for Week 3, y'all! This week on the show we welcomed back Stephanie Berg (she/her) to the MFQC studio as our guest host! Steph chatted with Dr. Vanessa Ralph (she/ella), a chemistry education researcher. They discussed how different aspects of identity impact their chemistry education research, the current climate of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) research in science education spaces, and more. Vanessa also shares tips and literature to help new education researchers (and everyone!) thoughtfully and equitably approach DEI work.

This episode is benefitting Black and Pink (chosen by our guest host, Stephanie) and the GoFundMe fundraiser is LIVE (https://gofund.me/ef7aa275) and will close 8/5. To connect with Stephanie and Vanessa you can follow them on Twitter @ssnorkles and @vanessachemedu (and us @MFQCPod). We'll see y'all next time and remember that Black Lives Matter today and everyday.

Pride Month may be over but MFQC Pride Summer is still underway! Welcome back for Week 2, y'all! This week on the show we welcomed MFQC newcomer Cassie Chartier (she/they) as our guest host! Cassie chatted with Viktor Belay (he/him), a PhD student at Weill Cornell Medicine and Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. They discussed science communication in the time of COVID, Viktor's journey to Tiktok, how scicomm and scipol intertwine, and much more! This episode is benefitting the Ali Forney Center (chosen by our guest host, Cassie) and the GoFundMe fundraiser is LIVE (https://gofund.me/fa594ef4) and will close 7/14. To connect with Cassie and Viktor you can follow them on Twitter @cassie_chartier and @BelayViktor (and us @MFQCPod). We'll see y'all next time and remember that Black Lives Matter today and everyday.

Welcome to the last week of our Pride Summer Special!! This week on the show, we welcomed MFQC newcomer Kareesa Kron (they/them) as our guest host! Kareesa chatted with Nancy Williams (she/her), a Chemistry Professor at the Keck Science Department at Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges. They discussed Nancy’s path through academia and her process of coming out as a trans woman after becoming a tenured faculty member at the Claremont Colleges. She explores her increasing involvement in DEI committees as the Claremont Colleges evolve to be more diverse and accepting to queer students. She also discusses her active involvement in deep canvassing through the LA LGBT Center and the Trans Chorus of LA and how she has built community in these spaces.

This episode is benefitting the LA LGBT Center (chosen by our guest host, Kareesa) and the GoFundMe fundraiser is LIVE (https://gofund.me/726c9923) and will close 9/10. To connect with Nancy you can follow her on Twitter @NancySBWilliams (and us @MFQCPod). We'll see y'all next time and remember that Black Lives Matter today and everyday.

Pride Month may be over but MFQC Pride Summer is still underway! Welcome back for Week 4, y'all! This week on the show we welcomed back Filipe Cerqueira (he/him) to the MFQC studio as our guest host! Filipe chatted with Dr. Brennan Kessenich (they/them), a chemist who now works for the National Park Service. IBrennan and Filipe discussed navigating the chemistry field as a queer person, how disabilities play at that intersection, scotch tape, and cat whiskers!

This episode is benefitting the Marsha P. Johnson Institute (chosen by our guest host, Filipe) and the GoFundMe fundraiser is LIVE (https://gofund.me/76674d41) and will close 8/26. To connect with Filipe you can follow him on Twitter @FilipeHutchens (and us @MFQCPod). We'll see y'all next time and remember that Black Lives Matter today and everyday.

Welcome back to My Fave Queer Chemist, y'all! This week, Bec & Geraldo share the recording of our first Pride Summer event, a Live Panel discussion about LGBTQ+ in Science Communication and Science Policy. We featured four incredible forces in the field of SciComm and SciPol: Sam Brinton (Executive Director, Core Solutions Consulting & VP of Advocacy & Government Relations, the Trevor Project), Josie Caballero (Project Manager, The National Center for Transgender Equality), Kit Chapman (Science Journalist & Book Author), and Ariana Remmel (Science Journalist). We’ve also raised $140 for the Transgender Law Center, an organization that is working to advocate for and save the lives of transgender people in this country. All pride summer, we’ll be hosting other great events that highlight LGBTQ+ scientists in a variety of fields. Each episode will raise funds for a different organization in the United States that is working to save the lives of transgender adults and youth, which feels especially necessary given the huge number of anti-trans legislation that have been proposed in countless states in this country this year. Next Thursday, June 17 we’ll be having our second panel “LGBTQ+ in Industry” benefiting the Trans Women of Color Collective so stay tuned, we’ll be tweeting more information about this in the next couple of days. Stay up to date on all of our Pride events on our Twitter @MFQCPod!