Diversity Science

In this episode, IDS Institute Chair Angela Byars-Winston talks with Professor Dhavan Shah [https://journalism.wisc.edu/news/staff/dhavan-v-shah/], who is a professor at the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and an IDS affiliate. They talk about how communication around politics has changed in the last decades, the impact of misinformation and disinformation on the upcoming presidential election, and how all this matters when it comes to our national conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion.

In this episode, Dr. Stephanie Budge talks with Dr. Angela Byars-Winston about the TransCARE Collaborative [https://trl.education.wisc.edu/] that she leads and the Collaborative's work to improve care services for two-spirit, trans, and non-binary people. Budge [https://ids.wisc.edu/staff/budge-stephanie/] is Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and she is also an IDS Affiliate.

In this episode, Dr. Jo Handelsman talked with Angela Byars-Winston about how her work as a molecular biologist can offer insights into issues of human diversity and how we can do a better job mentoring minoritized students in STEM disciplines. Handelsman is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Handelsman is a Vilas Research Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and an affiliate of the Institute for Diversity Science.

In this podcast episode, Professor Aziza Jones of the Wisconsin School of Business talks about a paper she co-authored with Broderick Turner [https://marketing.pamplin.vt.edu/people/faculty/turner.html#research] and Kalinda Ukanwa [https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/kalinda-ukanwa] about how marketing interventions can be used to decrease school segregation. Their research shows that providing information to parents that counters prior beliefs can increase the likelihood that they will send their children to more racially diverse schools.  Paper: Marketing Toward the Desegregation of Schools [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4465624]

For this episode of the podcast, we hear from Kendall Holley, Ben Douglas, and Michelle Marji about work they have been doing to build resources and communities around antiracism here at UW-Madison and beyond. Holley, Douglas, and Marji are all graduate students here at the UW. They talked with our Institute Chair and podcast host Dr. Angela Byars-Winston about what they’ve done so far and how they are trying to keep the momentum behind this work going. In the interview, they reference the Antiracist Academic Resources in Psychology [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HuvtbLVnCib5GkKz8FBxlZLYihK7gCbuW3pRse5ScZU/edit?usp=sharing] document and the Antiracism Learning and Action in Neuroscience [https://alaneuro.weebly.com/] organization on the UW-Madison campus.    To learn more about the Institute for Diversity Science visit our website [https://ids.wisc.edu/]. If you would like to contribute to our work, visit our donate page [https://ids.wisc.edu/support-donate/].