Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations Beyond Broadening Participation (2023) / Chapter Skim
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4 Lived Experiences and Other Ways of Knowing in STEMM
4 Lived Experiences and Other Ways of Knowing in STEMM
Pages 99-114
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Per the committee's statement of task, this chapter provides evidence from the lived experience and other crucial sources of information beyond traditional quantitative methods. The goal of the chapter is to provide a firsthand account of some of the challenges Black scholars encounter as they navigate in STEMM organizations.
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. Finally, the prioritization of personal knowledge and firsthand accounts that produce complementary evidence when the published research is lacking in such perspectives can be seen in numerous recent National Academies activities.1 INTERVIEWS: LIVED EXPERIENCES OF BLACK STEMM PROFESSIONALS To capture the lived experience and to provide a supplemental evidence base to the data presented elsewhere in this report, the committee conducted a series of structured interviews with Black individuals with careers in STEMM.
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As such, the committee believes that conducting similar interviews with members of other minoritized groups will yield different and valuable additional evidence. Thus, the structured interviews in this chapter also serve as a guide for future work and demonstrate the need for additional research that investigates the unique racialized issues facing other minoritized groups in the research agenda.
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3 Chapter 5 includes additional evidence related to the concept of belonging.
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And then I found that in basketball. So, I did find other grad students that love sports like I did; therefore they became my community.
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1] Racism and Racial Microaggressions Although interview participants were not specifically asked whether they experienced racism or racist incidences, general questions about belonging and support (and likely the overall subject of the committee's work)
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And they, they differentially respond to questions from dif ferent people. It could make people of color stop asking questions, which means they don't get their questions answered.
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4] 4 Chapter 2 includes additional evidence related to HBCUs.
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6] Mentors, Ingroups, and Outgroups Some interview participants underscored the importance of having knowledgeable guides during their education and professional pursuits.
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seemed threatening to me, I effectively had a buffer. I experienced what Vincent Tinto called institutional integration, which is high quality interactions with administrators and having quality connections with peers.
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It was at that time that I decided to utilize the skills that I had learned in being the only Black in a predominantly White school starting from middle school to high school to college, and decided to start reaching out to my colleagues who are White and try to find folks, White or other, to try to find folks that would work with me. Eventually, I found a crew.
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I only had two two-piece suits, and I discovered something on day three because I wore a sport jacket and a gray pair of pants; a blue sport jacket, and gray pair of pants. And someone pulled me aside and said, hey, [NAME REDACTED]
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12] Sources of Resilience Interview participants raised a range of sources of resilience including personal resources, such as family, faith, and self-reliance.
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That diversity includes traditional quantitative methods as well as model-based inquiry, Indigenous approaches, oral and community traditions, and interviews to capture lived experience. Model-based inquiry takes the premises of the standard scientific method and provides a different context and process for using them to build understanding: .
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The committee also recognized it is important to continue collecting lived experiences and to include voices that are not well represented in the research including those of Black, Indigenous, and other minoritized individuals. In the context of the information gathered through the structured interviews with Black STEMM professionals and understanding the nature of evidence and multiple methods of gathering knowledge, the committee came to the following conclusion: CONCLUSION 4-1: Oral history and other means of exploring the lived experiences of scholars from historically and systemically minori tized groups in STEMM offer valuable insights that supplement findings from other kinds of research.
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. Methods and emerging strategies to engage people with lived experience improving federal research, policy, and practice.
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