Postdoctoral representative to the All-Gender Restroom Working Group at MIT

[Matthew Prendergast]

Dear Postdocs,



My name is Matthew and I am the Postdoctoral representative to the All-Gender Restroom Working Group at MIT. Because I am relocating to Australia in September 2021, I would like to enroll another Postdoctoral researcher to take my position in the group.



The working group is looking to have a representative from the Postdoctoral researcher community on the All-Gender Restroom Working Group under the Institute Community & Equity Office (ICEO). It has representatives from a variety of sub-communities on campus as well as some offices to help expand access to all-gender restrooms on MIT's Cambridge campus. I anticipate the working group meeting monthly and there is opportunity for a higher level of involvement, should someone want to be more involved.  The current commitment would just be through this academic year until June 2022.



If you are interested, I can forward details to Jason McKnight who is helping coordinate the representatives. If you have any questions, I am happy to help otherwise I will forward questions to Jason for a better response. Thank you for your help.





from Matthew P.



PS:

-       An additional note: if there are other DEI topics you would like to explore, come join the PDA DEI Committee<https://pda.mit.edu/resources/diversity/> by filling this form (located on the PDA DEI page or here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVFZ6H5WNCZGGORlhT5yEBQdDGV-ymxXH-ZxMaiHVnYC_M_A/viewform>).

-       Here is a great video and website outlining the significance of All-gender bathrooms: https://www.stalled.online/

-       And, here is another related site looking at design for 'non-compliant' bodies: https://www.mixdesign.online/


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Dr. Matthew B. Prendergast
Postdoctoral Associate
Dept. Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Alternate email: mbprendmit at gmail.com<mailto:mbprendmit at gmail.com>)


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