| Title | Visiting Assistant Professor |
|---|---|
| Department | Secondary and Higher Education |
| lisette.torresgerald@salemstate.edu | |
| Resume | Lisette Torres-Gerald |
| EDS 992 | Special Topics in Higher Education and Student Affairs |
|---|
Dr. Lisette E. Torres-Gerald (pronouns she/her/ella) is a trained scientist and disabled scholar-activist who is a Senior Research Associate and Program Coordinator at TERC, a non-profit made up of teams of math and science education and research experts. She has a doctorate with a Certificate in Social Justice from the School of Education at Iowa State University and a M.S. in Zoology with a Certificate in Ecology from Miami University. Her academic research focuses on addressing racialized gender justice and disability in science and higher education. Lisette is an active member of Science for the People, serving as a Lead Editor and Accessibility Editor for Science for the People Magazine. She is also a co-founder and executive board member of the National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (CNLD) as well as an advisory board member of Science Friday’s Breakthrough Dialogues Program and the Invisible Disability Project (IDP). Lastly, Lisette has been identified as an AERA/Spencer Foundation Early-Career Scholar and a Kavli Foundation Sponsored Network Leader for Inclusive Science Communication.
Sociocultural Context of STEM, STEM education, Inclusive Science Communication, Critical Race Theory, DisCrit Intersectionality, Critical Disability Studies, Science Activism, Racial Justice, Gender Justice, Disability Justice, Qualitative methodologies
Dr. Torres-Gerald is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Salem State University, where she teaches HESA EDS 992 - Special Topics in Higher Education and Student Affairs: Higher Education and Disability.
Torres, L.E. (2020). Straddling death and (re)birth: A disabled Latina’s meditation on collective care and mending in pandemic times. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420960169
Torres, L.E., & Vanik, L. (2020, November 24). ¡PRESENTE! The National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities. Intervenxions by The Latinx Project at NYU. https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/national-coalition-for-latinxs-with-disabilities
Torres, L.E. (2019, July 1). On creating a STEM familia: Dr. Lisette Torres. Stairway to STEM Blog for Educators by Stairway to STEM. https://www.stairwaytostem.org/creating-a-stem-familia-dr-lisette-torres/
Torres, L.E. (2016). Tigre del Mar (Marine Tiger): A Boricua testimonio of surviving the sciences. In N. Croom, T. Marsh (Eds.), Envisioning critical race praxis in higher education through counter-storytelling (pp. 21-42). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Osei-Kofi, N., & Torres, L.E. (2015). College admissions viewbooks and the grammar of gender, race, and STEM. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 10(2), 527-544. doi:10.1007/s11422-014-9656-2
Osei-Kofi, N., Torres, L.E., & Lui, J. (2013). Practices of whiteness: Racialization in college admissions viewbooks. Race Ethnicity and Education, 16(3), 386-405. doi:10.1080/13613324.2011.645572
Torres, L.E. (2020, November 20). Disability in STEM. Invited virtual guest lecture for the NSF grant-funded QuEST program at the University of Vermont (UVM).
Torres, L.E. (2020, October 28). Race and disability in STEM. Invited webinar workshop presented to faculty and graduate students in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management enrolled in ESPM 290: Critical Engagements in Anti-Racist Environmental Scholarship at University of California – Berkeley.
Torres, L.E. (2020, October 15). Social media and disability. Guest lecture for Dr. Jessie Mathiason at the University of Maryland.
Torres, L.E. (2020, September 29). Accessibility in the virtual classroom. Teaching roundtable presented to faculty and staff at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Torres, L.E. (2020, May 13). Community care, power, and privilege in the age of COVID-19. Invited webinar workshop presented to the Inclusive Excellence Program at Oregon State University.
Torres, L.E., Canfield, K., & Menezes, S. (2020, April 30). Inclusive science communication: A radical rebranding of broader impacts. Kavli Foundation Ambassador presentation at the Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) Virtual Summit.
Torres, L.E. (2019, September 28). (SciComm) Access is love: Shifting the way we practice communicating science. Invited workshop presented at the #InclusiveSciComm Symposium at the Metcalf Institute at the University of Rhode Island.
Meditation, reading, spending time with my children, ecology