STEM Equity | Research Area

We re-envision who gets to practice science, how science is done, and whose communities benefit. Our work applies feminist, critical race, and justice theories to areas from water governance and resource management to the design of scientific research itself.

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Shelby Anderson

STEM equity, collaborative research with Indigenous communities

Shelby L. Anderson is a Professor in Anthropology at Portland State University. She obtained her BA from Western Washington University in 2001, and her MS and PhD from the University of Washington in 2011. Her research...

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Melissa Haeffner

Socio-hydrology, participatory research

Her research unifies several research domains that contribute to the knowledge of local politics in watersheds and how they shape urban water infrastructure development in the past, in the present, and under future...

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Lisa Weasel

Queer and feminist science, public engagement with science, deliberative and critical race STEM pedagogies

Interests Queer and feminist science studies; public engagement with science; global ethics and equity issues in applied bio- and nanotechnologies; deliberative and critical race STEM pedagogies; participatory and qualitative...

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