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Teaching & Diversity Seminar: Avoiding the Academic Savior Complex and Building Better Mentoring Relationships.

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
n/a
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Nov 3, 2021   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Pamela Harris, Williams College
Contact
Adriana Morales Miranda
E-Mail
adriana6@illinois.edu
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Dr. Harris will talk about Avoiding the Academic Savior Complex and Building Better Mentoring Relationships. In this talk, Dr. Harris will discuss some mentoring experiences and their effects on her mathematical self-confidence and career progression. She will then share concrete ideas on how to build better mentoring relationships. 

Dr. Pamela E. Harris is a Mexican-American mathematician and serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Faculty Fellow of the Davis Center and the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Williams College. Dr. Pamela E. Harris's research is in algebraic combinatorics and she is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed research articles in internationally recognized journals. Her professional mission is to develop learning communities that reinforce students’ self-identity as scientists, in particular for women and underrepresented minorities. In order to provide visibility to and increase the positive impact of the role models within our community, Dr. Harris co-founded Lathisms.org, a platform that features the contributions of Latinx and Hispanic scholars in the Mathematical Sciences. She cohosts the podcast Mathematically Uncensored and has recently coauthored the books Asked And Answered: Dialogues On Advocating For Students of Color in Mathematics and Practices and Policies: Advocating for Students of Color in Mathematics.

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