Maggie Werner Washburne: Collection of recent writing, talks, and documents.

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Recent Articles and talks

Early Career Latinas in STEM: Challenges and Solutions. Mexican, Puerto Rican, and CentralAmerican Ancestry (MPRCA) individuals represent 82% of US Latinos. An intergenerational group of MPRCA women and allies met to discuss persistent underrepresentation of is important and will benefit MPRCA women and the entire academic community. Cell; Nov 9, 2023

Imagination and Mentoring. An overview of the key elements of my mentoring strategy/program. I finish with a short presentation on the elements of a great team. Powerpoint with audio and captions. November 2023.
The Value of Adobe – Culturally relevant imagination. Medium published essay, March 2023
RESUME TIPS from STEM Boomerang/Boomerang-NM, March 2022
Video on REDISCOVERING IMAGINATION My discovery that imaginations are superpowers that can be grown at any age – and some initial exercises. 2022
Seeing Double: Reconciling Tradition and Science.The narrative of how I became a scientist. UCSF workshop: Native and Indigenous Scientists in Quantitative Biology, Nov, 2021.
What Thermodynamics Taught Me About Diversity and Inclusion. This talk delves into negative and positive bias as well as approaches to move from diversity to real inclusion. The Gladys J Everson Lectureship, University of Wisconsin, Dept of Biochemistry. Nov, 2021.
Robust, Sustainable, Mentoring Networks UNM Mentoring Institute, 2020 (One of my favorite presentations – the core of how mentoring can disrupt bias by teaching how to reframe)
Retention and Repatriation of STEM talent in New Mexico, Report for NM Department of Workforce Solutions, 2020

Papers on Mentoring and Imagination/Creativity

So you want to write a great letter of intent? Medium, 2021
A Perfect Storm: An impending crisis in US Education and Innovation, 10/2006 and updated 3/2021
Biology Discovery and Innovation: restoring creativity in the classroom updated 3/2021
Principles of Intentional Mentoring, Cell Biology Education, 2018
Me ntoring for Diversity in Technology, Nature Biotechnology, 2017
Dig A Little Deeper: Freedom is The Road We’re On. October 2017. This is an article based on a talk given to NIH personal and researchers working on mentoring programs.

Videos, Seminars, and Papers/Articles

Cell Press: 100 Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America 2020
Beans, Brains, and Baseball: How Making a Bigger Us is Critical for Diversity and Inclusion The talk starts at 1 hour 35 minutes and 5 seconds. Sept 2015
Winning All Along the STEM Pathway: Learning from Failure and Success March 2015
Aging and the Survival of Quiescent and Non-quiescent cells in Yeast Stationary-phase Cultures, 2012, Chapter proof
Musings on…mentoring. UWA Genome Sciences Departmental Retreat, 9/2010
Holistic mentoring: What I Learned From My Grandmother – UNM Mentoring Institute 11/2009
Transforming your life from a road to success to a path with heart, Cal State LA 6/2007 PPT
Making Every Photon Talk (hyper spectral imaging), Genomics and Proteomics, 2004
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math, and Engineering Mentoring Washington, DC; May 2004 (Remarks) (Award)
A Perfect Mix – NIGMS/NIH article in Findings, Sept 2003
Women of Color in Higher Education Day Proclamation from the NM House of Representatives, March 2003
OSTP – NSTC Report on the Federal Investment in Microbial Genomics. 2000

Other writing

Private Prisons: An Investment in Human Suffering. Medium, 2020

Maggie Werner Washburne