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Cell Press: 100 Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America 2020

 Recent Articles and talks (Links are active)

• Early Career Latinas in STEM: Challenges and Solutions
• RESUME TIPS from STEM Boomerang/Boomerang-NM, March 2022
• Video on REDISCOVERING IMAGINATION 2022  An introduction to the importanceof exercising our “Imagination muscle” and some initial exercises.
• Seeing Double: Reconciling Tradition and Science.The narrative of how I became a scientist. UCSF workshop: Native and Indigenous Scientists in Quantitative Biology, Nov, 2021. 
• What Thermodynamics Taught Me About Diversity and Inclusion.  This talk delves into negative and positive bias as well as approaches to move from diversity to real inclusion. The Gladys J Everson Lectureship, University of Wisconsin, Dept of Biochemistry. Nov, 2021.
• Robust, Sustainable, Mentoring Networks  UNM Mentoring Institute, 2020 (One of my favorite presentations – the core of how mentoring can disrupt bias by teaching how to reframe)
• Retention and Repatriation of STEM talent in New Mexico, Report for NM Department of Workforce Solutions, 2020

Papers on Mentoring and Imagination/Creativity 

• Indian Corn and Our Stories. Medium, 2024
• The Value of Adobe. Medium, 2024
• IMAGINATION SAVES! Medium 2023
• So you want to write a great letter of intent? Medium, 2021
• A Perfect Storm: An impending crisis in US Education and Innovation, 10/2006 and  updated 3/2021
• Biology Discovery and Innovation: restoring creativity in the classroom  updated 3/2021
• Principles of Intentional Mentoring, Cell Biology Education, 2018
• Mentoring for Diversity in Technology, Nature Biotechnology, 2017
• Dig A Little Deeper: Freedom is The Road We’re On. October 2017. This is an article based on a talk given to NIH personal and researchers working on mentoring programs.

Videos, Seminars, and Papers/Articles

• Interview by Shelly Gruenig of Southwest Science, with Monica Sandoval Johnson and Maggie Werner Washburne  October 2020
• Beans, Brains, and Baseball: How Making a Bigger Us is Critical for Diversity and Inclusion The talk starts at 1 hour 35 minutes and 5 seconds. Sept 2015
• Winning All Along the STEM Pathway: Learning from Failure and Success March 2015
• Aging and the Survival of Quiescent and Non-quiescent cells in Yeast Stationary-phase Cultures, 2012, Chapter proof 
• Musings on…mentoring. UWA Genome Sciences Departmental Retreat, 9/2010
• Holistic mentoring: What I Learned From My Grandmother – UNM Mentoring Institute 11/2009
• Transforming your life from a road to success to a path with heart, Cal State LA 6/2007  PPT
• Making Every Photon Talk (hyper spectral imaging), Genomics and Proteomics, 2004
• Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math, and Engineering Mentoring Washington, DC; May 2004 (Remarks) (Award) 
• A Perfect Mix – NIGMS/NIH article in Findings, Sept 2003
• Women of Color in Higher Education Day Proclamation from the NM House of  Representatives, March 2003
• OSTP – NSTC Report on the Federal Investment in Microbial Genomics. 2000