[GWAMIT] GW@MIT Newsletter, February 11th, 2020

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Events overview:
GW at MIT Events:

1.      Galentine’s Day Movie with GW at MIT (Feb. 13th)

2.     Intel Women in Tech Panel – Sponsored by GW at MIT (Feb. 20th)

3.     GW at MIT & Exponent Lunch (Mar. 6th)

4.     NEGWiSE Advocating for Ourselves and Others: How to Build Inclusive Communities (March 7th)

5.     Sign Up to Help Organize the 2020 GW at MIT Leadership Conference

6.     Become a GW at MIT Department Rep!
Women-related events and opportunities:

7.     Apply to Become a GSC-DEI Fellow!

8.     The Industry Career Search: Tools & Strategies Career Workshop for Graduate Womxn (Feb. 11th)

9.     MLK Celebration (Feb. 12th)

10.   AMITA’s “From Lab to Leadership” (Feb. 13th)

11.   “The Luxury of Supposing”: Black Power & US History (Feb. 13th)

12.  LGBT Speed Networking Night (Feb. 13th)

13.  AMITA: From Lab to Leadership (Feb. 13th)

14.  The Data + Feminism Lab Hosts Joana Varon (Feb. 13th)

15.  “Authenticity and Freedom at Work” with Dr. Tina Opie (RSVP by Feb. 11th)

16.  Catherine D’Ignazio, “Data Feminism” (Feb. 16th)

17.  Feminisms Unbound: CYBORG Manifestations (Feb. 19th)

18.  HGWISEGUYS Bias & Beers (Feb. 19th)

19.  2020 MIT Sloan Investment Conference (Feb. 21st)

20. Hack for Inclusion (Feb. 21st-22nd)

21.  Women in Tech, Business, and Marketing Career Fair (Feb. 22nd-23rd)

22. How to Advocate for Yourself (Feb. 26th)

23. Women in Green Community Lunch (Feb. 27th)

24. Cheney Room: Body Image Workshop & Lunch (Feb. 28th)

25. Brave Women of Color in Academics (Mar. 2nd)

26. LGBT Grad Social Hours (Mar. 2nd, Apr, 6th, May 4th)

27. Mindfulness for Engineers and Angst-Ridden Type-A Kindred Spirits (Mar. 2nd – Apr. 6th)

28. Giving & Receiving Feedback (Mar. 3rd)

29. Graduate Women Reading Group (next one is Mar. 3rd)

30. WiDS (Women in Data Science) Conference (Mar. 6th)

31.  Advanced Analytics/Data Science Internships to Improve Health Outcomes

32. Open position at Secure AI Labs (apply now!)

Did you know…?
GW at MIT Department Rep, Kristin Riley, wrote an article highlighting the need for diversity in data science. Read the article here<https://www.codingdojo.com/blog/why-data-science-needs-more-data-scientists-diversity-in-the-data-supply-chain>. Congratulations, Kristin!

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1.              Galentine’s Day Movie with GW at MIT!
When: Feb 13 (Thursday), 6-8 pm.
Where: Cheney Room (3-310) (Note: the Cheney room is open to self-identified women, transgender women, and non-binary individuals.)
Sign up here: http://signup.mit.edu/1885603858
Choose your movie here: https://forms.gle/Gr7KWpps2QkQQFL56
Join GW at MIT for a celebration of female friendship and grit this Galentine's Day! We will be screening a movie in the Cheney Room. Help us decide which one by making your choice in the poll above! GW at MIT will provide movie snacks. Bring along a friend who hasn't been to the Cheney Room yet (and ask them to sign up and fill in the poll as well so that we have an accurate headcount)!
P.S. Make sure to sign up (in addition to filling the Google poll)! The poll is anonymous, so please do sign up on the link above!

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2.                Intel Women in Tech Panel - Sponsored by GWAMIT
Date: Thursday, Feb 20th
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Building 2, Room 105
RSVP: here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-and-greet-with-intel-tickets-94011684479>
Come meet four engineers as they discuss the career successes of our senior technical women at intel.  Learn about Intel’s initiatives in gender pay equity and diversity in the workplace.  Ask questions about career development and work life balance.  Network, enjoy a snack, make some new friends.  Learn about immediate opportunities at Intel.

·       Dr. Mondira (Mandy) Deb Pant - Academic Research Director at Intel, Masters (MS) in Electrical Engineering and a Doctorate (PhD) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology**

·       Olga Lowe - MS in Electrical Engineering & MS in Solid State Physics from Boston University, 25+ years in High Tech industry, currently SRAM Design Manager in Intel’s Technology Platform Enablement Group

·       Evelyn Zuniga - Bachelor’s degree at MIT in Course 3/Materials Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree in Nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge.  Working at Intel for 5 years, most recently as a System Validation Engineer in the Datacenter Platforms Group.

·       Aditi Samant - University of Southern California May 2015.   MS degree in Electrical Engineering.  Working at Intel for past five years as CPU Design Engineer with the focus on physical design engineering.
** In her current role of Academic Research Director at Intel, Dr. Mondira (Mandy) Deb Pant, works with leading academic researchers worldwide and technical experts at Intel to seed and drive research efforts in areas of strategic importance to Intel in particular and the computing industry in general. Prior to this, as Intel’s lead technologist in the area of power delivery and power management, she investigated and drove several issues in the power space, particularly on-chip power delivery issues, power management and power reduction on the Intel next generation high volume server microprocessors. She has led Intel's die power delivery company wide synergy efforts and recently driven Intel's power delivery Roadmap program. Further, she has also been a key player in driving and deploying Intel's internal innovation programs.  She has published 20+ technical papers in prestigious VLSI conferences and journals, has 3 issued patents and 5 pending patents.  Mandy received her Bachelors (B.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering from I.I.T Kharagpur, India, a Masters (MS) in Electrical Engineering and a Doctorate (PhD) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. She joined Intel in 2001 as part of the Alpha team acquisition from Compaq Computer Corporation where she worked since graduating in 2000. Mandy is regarded as a very strong and motivating technical speaker having given numerous invited talks at various conferences and universities, including several keynote talks and distinguished lectures. She is an active proponent of STE(A) M for Women and young girls and has participated in various efforts in promoting it across the nation in general and in the New England area in particular. In 2009, Mandy was recognized by Mass High Tech (A Massachusetts High Tech Journal) as one of the top ten upcoming Women to Watch in the New England area.  In 2013, she was recognized by the India New England journal as one of the top 20 South Asian Women of 2013 in the New England area. She has recently risen to the role of Technical Chair for Intel’s biggest internal technical design conference.  She is a proud Mom to two high school girls ages 17 and 15 and is an avid reader, traveler, dancer, hiker and yoga enthusiast.



3.             GW at MIT & Exponent Lunch
When: Friday, March 6th, 12-1PM
Where: 56-154
RSVP: here<https://exponentrecruit.azurewebsites.net/Register/4097>


Join us for a discussion and networking session with MIT Alumni, Dr. Lindsey Gilman. Dr. Gilman will talk about her transition from graduate school, career progression, and the day-to-day work of a technical consultant.  She will also offer advice to graduate students interested in careers in industry. Lunch will be provided.
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4.             NEGWiSE Advocating for Ourselves and Others: How to Build Inclusive Communities

When: Saturday, March 7th

Where: Northeastern University, Egan Research Center, 120 Forsyth Street, Boston

RSVP: here<springtoaction2020.eventbrite.com>
Join us for an exciting line-up of speakers, workshops, an expert panel, and networking sessions with advocacy groups in the New England area. Learn how to best advocate for more diverse and inclusive campuses! Light breakfast and lunch will be served.

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5.             Sign Up to Help Organize the 2020 GW at MIT Leadership Conference

Sign-up link: here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4KtLDJJjHqJQEsN3Yw0l5zR_-EgWPJ2bSoiXqnSrooKfRtw/viewform>

We are currently accepting sign ups to help plan our annual Leadership Conference:
* Co-Chairs: Conference Co-Chairs lead the committee members, set the conference theme, and oversee all general planning of the conference.
* Event Leads: Each conference has 4-5 Event Leads who each spearhead a single event (either an invited speaker, a panel, a workshop, etc.).
*Committee Members: attend regular meetings, contribute to theme brainstorming, logistics, publicity, and volunteer during events.
*Please note that the conference will be scheduled during the week of April 6-10.
Please contact the GWAMIT Executive Board at gwamit-exec at mit.edu<mailto:gwamit-exec at mit.edu> if you have any questions. We also encourage you to read more about previous conferences and events on our website: https://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit/<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit/&sa=D&ust=1579981460708000&usg=AFQjCNFzQQIGuf4VQCrKR3emy7hdZBoeEQ>. We look forward to working with you!



6.             Become a GW at MIT Department Rep!

Interested in building connections across MIT and helping with the personal and professional development of graduate women at MIT? Want to be involved with GWAMIT but don't have the time to be a full board member? The Department Rep position might be perfect for you!

Fill out this quick interest form now! https://forms.gle/2dQtTWvRaPpHnMBH9 The full description of the role is in the form.

We are especially in need of reps from Biology, Econ, HASTS, Humanities, Writing, Nuclear Science and Engineering, CMS, CSB, CCWE, and MAS!

Purposes of the role:

1) Keep your department updated about GW at MIT events and initiatives, and

2) Keep GWAMIT in touch with departmental needs and activities

Benefits of the role:

1) Opportunity to connect with women across campus

2) Be well-informed about GW at MIT events and initiatives and departments’ initiatives

3) Get funding for women-focused events in your department or between departments
​            - At least $50/department involved in the event!
            - We can also help you book classrooms and event spaces on campus
Email the current GWAMIT Membership Chair, Molly, at mbird at mit.edu<mailto:mbird at mit.edu> if you have any questions!

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7.             Apply to Become a GSC-DEI Fellow!

We invite you to apply to the new GSC-DEI Graduate Fellows Program! The goal of this Program is to provide a unique space for graduate students at MIT to engage in challenging and meaningful conversations about race, racism, and social justice.

In March 2020, the Fellows will learn how to effectively facilitate productive conversations during a two-day workshop hosted by professionals from the Interaction Institute for Social Change<https://interactioninstitute.org/>, all expenses paid. The Fellows will then lead three institute-wide, in-person, peer-to-peer gradCommunity Dialogues to more deeply explore themes introduced in the MIT’s DEI online module<https://oge.mit.edu/graddiversity/dei-online-module/>. Over the course of an initial 1-year commitment, Fellows will introduce a new cohort of graduate student facilitators to multiply and expand the program’s reach across the MIT graduate community.
We are currently seeking 24 graduate students interested in creating a more equitable, inclusive, and engaging MIT community. Apply here<https://forms.gle/EwwzhEkGuRsfdVjZA> through Feb 7. Please contact gsc-diversity at mit.edu<mailto:gsc-diversity at mit.edu> with any questions.

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8.             AMITA: From Lab to Leadership

When: February 13th, 6:30-8:30PM

Where: MIT Building E51-149

Register: here<http://amita.alumgroup.mit.edu/s/1314/2015/club-class-main.aspx?sid=1314&gid=20&pgid=51322&cid=83061&ecid=83061&crid=0&calpgid=1068&calcid=3033>

Cost: AMITA Members $10, Non AMITA Members $15, Limited free tickets for students with valid ID. Light refreshments will be provided.

Join AMITA for an evening with Anne Aunins PhD '91 "From Lab to Leadership:  A Journey From Developing processes for Making Drugs and Vaccines to Leading Global Product Development teams.

After completing her PhD in Chemical Engineering at MIT, Anne started her career at Merck Research Laboratories, optimizing and scaling-up processes to make asthma and migraine drugs for use in clinical trials. Later, through a combination of deliberate moves and unexpected opportunities, she gained exposure to all facets of drug and vaccine development, built strong relationships in both R&D and manufacturing, and developed skills in project management and leadership.  In 2010, she was selected to be a Global Project Team Leader for pediatric vaccines at Merck, and she later went on to lead development teams for a variety of products at Teva Pharmaceuticals, including antibodies and drug-device combination products. Anne will talk about her career in the context of drug development in large biopharmaceutical companies and share some things she’s learned along the way, including how choosing the right roles can provide the skills and visibility that open doors in the future.
Anne came to MIT after finishing her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia.  She completed her PhD in 1991 and then went to work for Merck in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In more than 20 years at Merck, Anne had a wide range of roles, including drug and vaccine process development, technology transfer, regulatory submissions, manufacturing, and project leadership.  Anne then spent 3 years at Teva Pharmaceuticals, where she led project teams for drugs to treat asthma, cystic fibrosis, and diabetes.  Anne currently works at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, where she has been leading the integration of Takeda and Shire Pharmaceutical Sciences departments since Takeda’s acquisition of Shire in 2019.   Anne and her husband John (also Course X PhD) live in Newton and have two sons and a daughter, all in graduate school or college.  Anne enjoys running and hiking, but her passion is rowing.  During the warmer months, she can often be found navigating the Charles River in a single sculling shell.


9.             MLK Celebration
You are warmly invited to join other members of the MIT community at the 46th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration on February 12, 2020 from 11:00AM to 1:00PM, at Morss Hall, Walker Memorial (MIT Building 50)<http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=50>. Please share this invitation with others!

Seating is limited for the program and luncheon, please REGISTER NOW<https://cvent.me/bVMbAk>.

Program Information
We gather each February as a community to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and to honor Dr. King's dual emphasis on global and local issues.
Due to student feedback, this year's keynote speaker will be Kevin Richardson, one of the Central Park Five. We know he has some timely wisdom to share with us. Graduate student Candace Ross (Computer Science) and undergraduate student Kelvin Green (Physics) will also share brief remarks.
Please visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration homepage<http://diversity.mit.edu/> for more information.

Questions regarding the program should be directed to the Planning Committee via email to mitmlkcelebration at mit.edu<mailto:mitmlkcelebration at mit.edu>.
Accessibility
To request disability accommodation, please contact conferences-www at mit.edu<mailto:conferences-www at mit.edu>.
Registration Questions
Contact MIT Conference Services
Email: conferences-www at mit.edu<mailto:conferences-www at mit.edu>
Phone: 617-253-1700
We hope you will join us!



10.         AMITA’s “From Lab to Leadership”

When: Thursday, February 13, 2020

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

Location: MIT Building E51-149

You are cordially invited to AMITA's upcoming event, "From Lab to Leadership:  A Journey From Developing processes for Making Drugs and Vaccines to Leading Global Product Development teams."

This talk will be given by Anne Aunins PhD '91, who has served in a wide range of scientific and leadership roles at biopharmaceutical companies including Merck, Teva, and Takeda. Join us to hear rare insights about the biopharma industry and careers from her unique perspective.

Light refreshments will be provided. A limited number of free tickets are reserved for students with valid ID. First come first served.

More info and registration: http://amita.alumgroup.mit.edu/s/1314/2015/club-class-main.aspx?sid=1314&gid=20&pgid=51322&content_id=56898



11.          “The Luxury of Supposing”: Black Power & US History
MLK Visiting Scholar Luncheon with Dr. Rhonda Y Williams
Thursday, February 13th
11:45am – 1:00pm
Stratton Student Center, Room 307 (W20-307)
"The Luxury of Supposing": Black Power & U.S. History
The celebrated novelist, essayist, and activist James Baldwin wrote in 1968 that “Americans” allowed “themselves the luxury of supposing” that Stokely Carmichael “coined the phrase ‘black power’” in June 1966. In actuality, maintained Baldwin, Carmichael "simply dug it up again from where it’s been lying since the first slaves hit the gangplank.”
This lunchtime presentation emerges out of Dr. Williams’ book-in-progress titled A Black Power History of the United States, which treats struggles over black power (or lack thereof) and white power as a dialectic.
Focusing on the centuries before the United States formally existed, Dr. Rhonda will discuss how white power and race, class, and gender oppression are not aberrations or mere flaws of the country; they are in its DNA. Indeed, the early colonizing imperatives and building blocks of white power in the “New World” – racial capitalism, patriarchal privilege, and the dehumanization of human beings – provided the economic, political, and social foundations for the nation. The tyrannical state of affairs, set in motion before the 19th century (and still with us even today), not only compelled, but also necessitated, black people’s struggles for self-determination.
Please join us as Dr. Rhonda invites us to release our own luxury of supposing in order to think more intentionally about how U.S. history is told and how that impacts us now.​
**Please be advised that we will be serving vegetarian and seafood dishes at this event, and feel free to let us know if you have any dietary restrictions by emailing Rachel Ornitz in the ICEO (rornitz at mit.edu<mailto:rornitz at mit.edu>) **
To RSVP, follow this link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/90804694285

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12.         The Industry Career Search: Tools & Strategies Career Workshop for Graduate Womxn

When: Tuesday, February 11th, 3-4PM

Where: Margaret Cheney Room, 3-310
Join us for a conversation to learn about various MIT resources and effective approaches to navigate a non-faculty career search. Making a change to a non-faculty environment can feel challenging, and we’re here to help. Facilitated by MIT Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD).



13.         LGBT Speed Networking Night

When: Thursday, Feb. 13th, 8-10PM

Where: TBD

Speed dating and networking with fellow LGBT+ grad students at MIT

Dinner will be served

Light music to set the mood.

Sponsored by the GSC Funding Board

Event link: https://calendar.mit.edu/event/lgbt_speed_datingnetworking#.XjxXVmhKhPY


14.         The Data + Feminism Lab Hosts Joana Varon

When: Thursday, Feb. 13th, 3-5PM

Where: 7-337

Speculative TransFeminist Futures: from imagination to action
From consent to profound debates around intersectionalities, feminist theories and approaches to daily life have a lot to guide us towards developing technologies that might help us to expose power imbalances and promote human rights and social justice. After a brief presentation about the work that Coding Rights has been doing towards materializing this bigger assumption, our gathering will be a group discussion to collectively brainstorm different paths to start envisioning transfeminist technologies to help us craft better futures.
About Joana Varon
Joana is Executive Directress and Creative Chaos Catalyst at Coding Rights, a women-run organization working to expose and redress the power imbalances built into technology and its application, particularly those that reinforce gender and North/South inequalities. Current affiliate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and former Mozilla Media Fellow, she is co-creator of several creative projects operating in the interplay between law, arts and technologies, such as transfeministech.org<http://transfeministech.org/?fbclid=IwAR2GAazhLmUyFI-NAICi0I8Nx5CkJIIGTjyh-L3DK5oZUy2PCwPptrJ-8dk>, chupadados.com<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fchupadados.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0hjJF9yysB2wjmL6X61qUZi2sxbNm8k__aKAsqs-XkXRtMmF7jmU6Dpnc&h=AT3PFVFkv3syWJPNS3rEi6oZjRF9vxPSQ2ysFGe1DAWmfxcHBQvlOUkT8VGLUOsfFq_43PIlXnyTaEO5FEdUQ-7nRji_rByMxbK6ImrMFrka354R3szqfyErgDiM5CznojAMNQ>, #safersisters<https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/safersisters>, protestos.org<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fprotestos.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR09AI4ZxHUnEjTnfBpaICRwP1PRlc4wO2EZY-hzIPJ-iWhlZTCNzuNRlMM&h=AT3JrLu47hRUIZU8gQkamJHsU1Xqo8qlU7VB0DDR39Cu0zIkRg2x_O9Yf-NroXebmOgnXYf8fsBWFCutGtTw7PmK3wArUzVtZaj3yN9ovoHMRfQu5MeQ9TGDkSbKcTKHywNzjQ> and freenetfilm.org.<http://freenetfilm.org/?fbclid=IwAR1FSfwNLwECmXVPJxmtgsSzJlskykDkH7Lcb8pKzEKNF1MzBCwfa-Gw7q4> Brazilian, with Colombian ancestry, she is engaged in several privacy and security networks, such as Privacy International Network, the feminist hackers collective DeepLab and the Advisory Council of Open Technology Fund, always focused on bringing Latin American perspectives in the search of feminist techno-political frameworks for design and usages of technologies.
About the Data + Feminism Lab
The Data + Feminism Lab uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial equity, particularly as they relate to space and place. Our work is based on the intersectional approach outlined in Data Feminism (D'Ignazio & Klein, MIT Press, 2020). This approach includes analyzing power against the backdrop of the "matrix of domination" (Collins, 2000), valuing lived experience, committing to co-liberation, and using participatory methods of co-design and knowledge production. We are proud members of the Design Justice Network. The Data + Feminism Lab is based in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and directed by Catherine D'Ignazio.

[The Data + Feminism Lab hosts Joana Varon]



15.         “Authenticity and Freedom at Work” with Dr. Tina Opie
Date: February 19, 2020
Location: Grand Cayman/NE49-3100
Time:   11-11:45am ***Lunch Served***
12pm-1pm, Workshop Begins
1-1:30pm, Participant Questions
Please RSVP by February 11 by 5 p.m.:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/authenticity-and-freedom-at-work-tickets-92356228967

We are pleased to invite you to a Latino Employee Resource Group (Latino ERG), African, Black, American, Caribbean Employee Resource Group (ABAC) and Institute Community Equity Office (ICEO) co-sponsored workshop titled “Authenticity and Freedom at Work” with MIT MLK Scholar, Dr. Tina Opie.
Dr. Opie’s presentation on authenticity and inclusion invites audience members to explore the pros and cons of expressing their authentic selves at work.  We will also discuss how organizational norms may inhibit or facilitate employees diversity, inclusion and belonging. The presentation will conclude with an investigation of how Shared Sisterhood can lead to actionable, positive workplace change.
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 Dr. Tina Opie, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor of Management at Babson College and a Visiting Associate Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. An award-winning researcher and teacher, Dr. Opie explores the connections between diversity, inclusion and equity along with identity, culture, fashion, authenticity and professionalism. As a consultant, she provides organizations with strategic direction on how to create more diverse, inclusive and equitable workplaces. Her work on Shared Sisterhood™ provides individuals and organizational leaders with specific strategies to tap into their authentic identities, forge deeper relationships across difference and create more inclusive environments. She has advised firms in the beauty, educational, financial services, health care, entertainment and media industries. Her work has appeared in O Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and Harvard Business Review. She is a regular commentator on Harvard Business Review’s Women at Work podcast, and Greater Boston’s NPR affiliate television station WGBH. Her work has also appeared in academic journals such as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, Fashion Studies, Frontiers in Psychology, Higher Education and Organizational Dynamics. Before teaching, she was a consultant at A.T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm, and a commercial banker at Bank of America. Dr. Opie brings more than 20 years of experience as a thought leader who combines practice and theory to generate high-impact solutions that unleash the power of authenticity in organizations. For consulting inquiries, contact Dr. Opie at OpieConsultingGroupLLC at gmail.com<mailto:OpieConsultingGroupLLC at gmail.com>. For more on Dr. Opie’s work, please follow links below:
https://twitter.com/drtinaopie
https://hbr.org/podcast/2018/02/lead-with-authenticity
https://hbr.org/2017/07/our-biases-undermine-our-colleagues-attempts-to-be-authentic
All ERG Events are open to all members of the MIT community.
If you have any questions or need special accommodations, please contact:  Idalia Cuevas: icuevas at mit.edu<mailto:icuevas at mit.edu> or Vivian N. Ruiz: ruizvn at mit.edu<mailto:ruizvn at mit.edu>



16.         Catherine D’Ignazio, “Data Feminism”

When: Sunday, Feb. 16th, 5-6:30PM

Where: E15-318 (common area)

As data are increasingly mobilized in the service of global corporations, governments, and elite institutions, their unequal conditions of production, their inequitable impacts, and their asymmetrical silences become increasingly more apparent. It is precisely this power that makes it worth asking: “Data science by whom? For whom? In whose interest? Informed by whose values?” And most importantly, “How do we begin to imagine alternatives for data’s collection, analysis, and communication?” These are some of the questions that emerge from what Lauren Klein and Catherine D’Ignazio call Data Feminism<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-feminism> (MIT Press 2020). Data feminism is a way of thinking about data science and its products that is informed by the past several decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought, emerging anti-oppression design frameworks, and scholarship from the fields of Critical Data Studies, Science & Technology Studies, Geography/GIS, Digital Humanities and Human Computer Interaction. An intersectional feminist lens prompts questions about how, for instance, challenges to the male/female binary can also help challenge other binary (and empirically wrong) classification systems. It encourages us to ask how the concept of invisible labor can help to expose the gendered, racialized, and colonial forms of labor associated with data work. And it demonstrates why the data never, ever, speak for themselves. In this talk, D’Ignazio will introduce seven principles for data feminist work: examining and challenging power, rethinking binaries and hierarchies, considering context, embracing pluralism, making labor visible, and elevating emotion. The goal of this work is to transform scholarship into action – to operationalize feminism in order to imagine more ethical and more equitable data practices.

Catherine D’Ignazio (@kanarinka<https://twitter.com/kanarinka> | www.kanarinka.com<http://www.kanarinka.com/>) is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. She has run women’s health hackathons, designed global news recommendation systems, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. Her forthcoming book from MIT Press, Data Feminism, co-authored with Lauren Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. Her research at the intersection of technology, design & social change has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, the Journal of Community Informatics, and the proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI). D’Ignazio is an assistant professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT where she is the Director of the Data + Feminism Lab.



17.          Feminisms Unbound: CYBORD Manifestations

When: Feb. 19th, 6PM

Where: MIT 4-270

This panel invites scholars to consider the confluences between science and technology studies and gender and sexuality studies in their own research. Feminist, queer, and trans studies scholars attending to science, technology, environment, and disability are dismantling the rubrics of gender and body at the core of our fields in order to think more critically about the material conditions of living inside racial capitalism. For example: Donna Haraway’s cyborg troubles the distinctions between body and technology; Sylvia Wynter asks who can access categories of “man” and “human” under ongoing conditions of captivity; Kim Tallbear discusses indigenous epistemologies that trouble hegemonic distinctions between what is and is not alive; and Jasbir Puar implicates technological warfare in imperialist projects that disable nations and bodies. Science and technology studies not only turns us toward materiality, but also offers analytics to think through social and aesthetic phenomena: virtual, viral, cellular, toxic, and nuclear. Thinking at the interstices of machine and myth, flesh and data, and human, animal, plant, land, and spirit exposes more ways that bodies are governed, and imagines more possibilities for minoritarian subjects to steal away from surveillance. How are science and technology working to liberate and delimit gender and sexuality? How do empiricism and imagination work together? How do we facilitate interdisciplinary scholarship across the silos of the neoliberal campus? Please see our website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gcws.mit.edu_gcws-2Devents-2Dlist_feminisms-2Dunbound-2Dcyborg-2Dmanifestation&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=Qy_5neWa9K0ypUhGkxbia8lVqsuvyzi0W_7u8NI32MM&m=9sf8PdGGGPcMntQ6c1Ueqb9Wv0GXHQ8UtW9DV_0FkCM&s=YLDZauaADEaszR5xgjIoru7X0WPX5krS-zaCYdlQfCA&e=> for more information or contact us at gcws at mit.edu<mailto:gcws at mit.edu>.



18.         HGWISEGUYS Bias & Beers

When: February 19th, 6-7:30PM

Where: 20 Oxford St, Faculty Lounge (4th floor)

RSVP: here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLT3VGwNr2iMS6RBptyUGnUZ_v6_aqEhI_1lGHFS3zqbhvvg/viewform>

Join HGWISE and HGWISEGUYS for the first Bias & Beers meeting of the semester. We will be talking about the paper linked below. Please RSVP at the link above to help us get an accurate count for dinner and refreshments! Hope to see you there. Paper: Holman, L., et al. (2018): “The gender gap in science: How long until women are equally represented?”<https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2004956&type=printable>



19.         2020 MIT Sloan Investment Conference
We invite you for 2020 MIT Sloan Investment Conference that is scheduled for Friday, February 21, 2020 at the Samberg Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The 15th edition of the MIT Sloan Investment Conference features the theme "Searching for Alpha", which focuses on the viewpoints and challenges faced by institutional investors in adding long term value for their clients.  This year, a brand new panel on “Women in Investing” is introduced in addition to the panels on quantitative and fundamental investing, private equity, venture capital, and asset allocation.
The conference will feature Brian Conway, Chairman and Managing Partner of TA Associates, leading global growth private equity firm, and Rick Slocum, Chief Investment Officer of Harvard Management Company, and Gabriel Sod Hoffs, Head of Emerging Markets and Global Macro Strategies, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management among other distinguished speakers from, Wellington, Fidelity, MFS, Man Numeric, Millennium, Polen Capital, Anchor Capital, August Capital etc
Get your ticket now at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-sloan-investment-conference-2020-tickets-85690062283?aff=erelexpmlt



20.       Women in Tech, Business, and Marketing Career Fair

When: Feb. 22nd & 23rd

Price: Free

Looking for an internship or a full-time job? RSVP to the internet’s largest career fair for women in tech, business, and marketing.<https://getcareero.com/2020-women-in-tech-biz-marketing-career-fair> The virtual career fair is free and you’ll have the chance to drop your resume to awesome companies, get access to dozens of free career resources and tools.
During the career fair, students will also have access to free resume reviews, career guidance, and virtual coffee chats from career professionals.
The virtual career fair will take place on Feb 22nd - Feb 23rd. Don’t forget to sign up here!
<https://getcareero.com/2020-women-in-tech-biz-marketing-career-fair>

21.         Hack for Inclusion
When: Friday Feb 21st (11:30am) - Sat Feb 22nd (7:30pm)
Where: Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02142
Sign up: http://bit.ly/h4i2020
Registration is now open for MIT Sloan’s HACK FOR INCLUSION! Innovate alongside the brightest minds and organizations like BCG, the NBA, Google and more to solve real challenges related to bias and inclusion in business and society. This event is FREE and includes all meals and materials. Last year we ran out of space, so sign up now! All backgrounds are welcome. For more details visit www.hackforinclusion.com<http://www.hackforinclusion.com/> where challenges, agenda, and sponsors are being updated regularly!


22.        How to Advocate for Yourself
When: February 26th, 6-8:30PM
Where: CIC, 245 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Mosaic Room, Cambridge, MA
Cost: WEST/CIC Members: $15, Non-Members: $40
Sign-up: here<https://www.westorg.org/2020-02-26-Negotiate-Advocate-Workshop>

We negotiate every day. At work we negotiate not just our jobs and salaries, but research priorities, budgets, staffing, deliverables and time tables. At home some of us negotiate child care pick up and drop off, who is making dinner and who stays home when the kids are sick. While men and women are equally skilled negotiators, women face some additional challenges. Not only were many of us not raised to advocate for our own interests, but we sometimes pay a social cost when we assert our needs and interests. We’ll dive into what we negotiate, our beliefs around advocating for ourselves, how to mitigate others’ negative perceptions when we assert our interests and two tools for increasing our effectiveness. You will leave with a better understanding of what is getting in your way and what to do about it.
About the Speaker - Amy Rebecca Gay, PhD, CPCC
Amy is a senior consultant and coach with Five Rhythms Consulting who brings over twenty-five years of experience as a mediator, trainer and facilitator for organizations of all sizes including Fortune 250 companies. She is the former assistant director of the Graduate Programs in Conflict Resolution at UMass Boston, she was the trainer and product manager at Vantage Partners and currently collaborates with UMass’s Center for Collaborative Leadership, The Mediation Group and Mobius Executive Leadership. She has taught at LeMoyne College, Syracuse University, UMass Boston and Babson College. Over her career, Amy has discovered that we communicate most effectively when we’ve mastered our own energy, emotions and identity. She brings an active awareness of the mind/body connection, a warm and welcoming facilitation style and a deep dedication to using one’s mind for powerful transformation. She has a PhD from Syracuse’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and is a Coaches Training Institute certified coach.

A light dinner will be provided by Servier BioInnovation<https://www.servier.us/#bioinnovation>.


Given our mission is to promote women's development in STEM we would like to offer a one-time free spot in our workshops to those in transition between jobs. Please contact info at westorg.org if you qualify.


23.        Women in Green Community Lunch

When: Feb. 27th, 12-1:30PM

Where: China Pearl, 9 Tyler St., Boston, MA 02111

RSVP: here<https://usgbcma.org/event/women-in-green-community-lunch-2/> ($25/ticket)

Instead of packing lunch for work, why not join the USGBC MA for our Women in Green: Community Lunch! On Thursday, February 27th, come meet other women in the Massachusetts, sustainable design community and enjoy a variety of dim sum dishes at China Pearl. There are only 40 seats available, so make sure to register early.



24.        Cheney Room Body Image Workshop and Lunch

When: Friday, Feb. 28th, 12-1PM

Where: Cheney Room (3-310)
Join us for a body image workshop with Susanna Barry, Senior Program Manager in Community Wellness at MIT Medical. She is a national board certified health coach and has master's degrees in education and psychology. More details on this workshop to come. Lunch will be served!



25.        Brave Women of Color in Academics

When: March 2nd, 4PM

Where: 4-270
The new co-edited anthology, Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance<https://www.routledge.com/Counternarratives-from-Women-of-Color-Academics-Bravery-Vulnerability/Whitaker-Grollman/p/book/9781138610903> contains essays and creative works by 28 women of color academics who redefine what it means to be successful in academia, who stand up against injustice in academia despite the risks, and who leverage their positions in university to advance diversity and inclusion in higher education.
Academic bravery challenges the status quo, crosses boundaries and breaks new ground. In essence, being a brave academic entails refusing to prioritize self-serving interests at the expense of knowledge production and social justice. Rather than avoiding risky endeavors to protect one’s position and status, a brave academic uses her position, status and expertise to effectively advance knowledge and equity, despite the risks.
The anthology, and this panel, seeks to counter the discourse that women of color are solely tokens and victims of marginalization in academe. Women of color academics have leveraged their professional positions to challenge the status quo in their scholarship, teaching, service, activism, and leadership. By presenting reflexive work from various vantage points within and outside of the academy, contributors document the cultivation of mentoring relationships, the use of administrative roles to challenge institutional leadership, and more.
This event is free and open to the public. Please see our website<https://www.gcws.mit.edu/gcws-events-list/brave-women-of-color-academics> for more information.
Panelists:
Alessandra Bazo Vienrich , Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College
Eric Grollman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Richmond
Manya Whitaker is an Associate Professor and Chair of Education at Colorado College.
Robbin Chapman , Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Harvard Kennedy School
Moderator :
Saida Grundy, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Boston University
Cosponsored by: Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development; MIT Women's and Gender Studies; Tufts Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Boston University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; UMass Boston Africana Studies Department; UMass Boston Department of Anthropology; UMass Boston Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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26.        LGBT Grad Social Hour
When: Monday, Mar. 2nd, 6-7PM
              Monday, Apr. 6th, 6-7PM
              Monday, May 4th, 6-7PM
Where: Rainbow Lounge (50-250)

These social hours are pretty much exactly what they sound like- unstructured, casual opportunities to meet other LGBT graduate students at MIT and just hang out for a bit.

We hope you'll take the opportunity to socialize, make friends, and find community!

These events are partially sponsored by the GSC Funding Board

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27.         Mindfulness for Engineers and Angst-Ridden Type-A Kindred Spirits

When: Mondays, 7-8:30PM from March 2nd-April 6th

Where: BitSight Technologies Offices (111 Huntington Ave, Boston MA, 20th floor)

Sign-up: here<https://mindfulnessforengineers.dev> (deposit required to hold spot, returned upon meeting attendance requirement)
Six-week free* in-person mindfulness course in downtown Boston in March-April. Offered by a Computer Science Ph.D. who works full-time as a Data Scientist in the Boston tech industry, this course is based on mindfulness practices the teacher has used over the past decade to get her perfectionism, workaholism, and all the other -isms down to healthy levels. The course takes a pragmatic, applied, non-touchy-feely approach to mindfulness and focuses extensively on academic and career stresses and work/life balance clarity.



28.        Giving & Receiving Feedback
When: March 3rd, 6-8:30PM
Where: Ginkgo Bioworks, 27 Drydock Avenue, 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02210
Buy tickets: here<https://www.westorg.org/2020-03-03-giving-receiving-feedback>

Almost everyone struggles with giving and receiving feedback. Yet everyone struggles for different reasons:

·        For some people, resistance to receiving feedback is tied to a fear of being judged, making mistakes, or failing.

·        For others, offering feedback is associated with criticism.

·        There are also cultural differences that impact how comfortable you are in giving or receiving feedback.

·        Maybe for you, it’s simply that you haven’t learned the skills to make the process less stressful.

All of this means that learning how to give meaningful feedback, is not one-size-fits-all.

We’ll explore ways you can become more comfortable giving and asking for feedback. You’ll learn several simple, yet powerful, techniques to take the sting and awkwardness out of the feedback conversation. You’ll discover how to ask for and receive feedback in a way that feels natural to you.

For managers, you’ll learn questions you can ask your team, to help YOU become a better manager. For all participants, you’ll learn ways to offer feedback to your peers, and even your boss!

Participants will learn 4 basic steps to giving meaningful feedback in a way that feels safe for both the giver and receiver. You'll be able to apply these steps immediately, in your personal life, and in your career.

Cost: $15 for members; $40 for non-members

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29.        Graduate Women Reading Group
Join a monthly reading group for graduate women at MIT!
Do you like to read books? Would you like to read more and discuss the books you read with others? Then the Graduate Women’s Reading Group is for you! We are taking new members this semester and would love to have you join in!
The Graduate Women's Reading Group consists of around 15 members who meet monthly to discuss a book. The books are provided by Dean Staton, but the titles are chosen by the members democratically once every six months.  All members are allowed to nominate and vote on books we read. Some of the books we read last semester included: Bad Blood, Educated, Maybe you should Talk to Someone, Homo Deus, and Wild Game.
We meet Tuesdays at 5pm in room 3-310, which is the Margaret Cheney Room.  Meetings are mostly the first Tuesday of each month, but not always.
The upcoming meetings are:
Feb 4 - Talking to Strangers
March 3 - Uncanny Valley
If you are interested, please email Maha Haji at mhaji at mit.edu<mailto:mhaji at mit.edu> with the following:
(1) What month you would like to start. We may have an extra copy of Talking to Strangers for you, but you’re still welcome to come to the February meeting to see what it’s like.   Otherwise, you can start at our next meeting in March.
(2) If you can come to the March meeting, let us know if you need a copy of Uncanny Valley.  (You should only be getting a book if you plan to attend the meeting for that month.)
(3)  If you have a Kindle-compatible e-reader and would prefer to get books that way, please send the preferred email address.
Happy reading!



30.       WiDS (Women in Data Science) Conference

When: March 6th, 8AM-5PM

Where: Microsoft New England, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142

For the fourth year, Harvard, MIT, and Microsoft Research New England are proud to collaborate with Stanford University to bring the Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference to Cambridge, Massachusetts. This one-day technical conference will feature an all-female line up of speakers from academia and industry to talk about the latest data science-related research in a number of domains, to learn how leading-edge companies are leveraging data science for success, and to connect with potential mentors, collaborators, and others in the field. For more information and registration please visit the website: https://www.widscambridge.org<https://www.widscambridge.org/>



31.         Advanced Analytics/Data Science Internships to Improve Health Outcomes

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32.        Open Position at Secure AI Labs

Secure AI Labs was co-founded by a female MIT alum who is now the CTO. They are currently looking for a Product Sales Engineering. Learn more about the position and apply here<https://angel.co/company/secure-ai-labs/jobs/713765-product-sales-engineer>.


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