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Recent Articles and talks
Early Career Latinas in STEM: Challenges and Solutions. Mexican, Puerto Rican, and CentralAmerican Ancestry (MPRCA) individuals represent 82% of US Latinos. An intergenerational group of MPRCA women and allies met to discuss persistent underrepresentation of is important and will benefit MPRCA women and the entire academic community. Cell; Nov 9, 2023
- Imagination and Mentoring. An overview of the key elements of my mentoring strategy/program. I finish with a short presentation on the elements of a great team. Powerpoint with audio and captions. November 2023.
- The Value of Adobe – Culturally relevant imagination. Medium published essay, March 2023
- RESUME TIPS from STEM Boomerang/Boomerang-NM, March 2022
- Video on REDISCOVERING IMAGINATION My discovery that imaginations are superpowers that can be grown at any age – and some initial exercises. 2022
- 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
- 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
- Cell Press: 100 Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America 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
Other writing
- Private Prisons: An Investment in Human Suffering. Medium, 2020
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Cell Press: 100 Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America 2020
Recent Articles and talks (Links are active)
- 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
- 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
Other writing
- Private Prisons: An Investment in Human Suffering. Medium, 2020
