Education Standards
BIPOC Voices
Overview
The BIPOC Voices project supports educator and student learning about Black, Indigenous, and People of Color scientists and community advocates. This project comprises a set of multimedia resources, including video interviews and an activity guide, that are designed to inspire critical conversations about BIPOC representation, justice-related professional pathways, and the role science can play in helping communities to thrive. Educators engage online with an asynchronous course to deepen their own learning, prepare for classroom implementation of the resources, and reflect on their experiences facilitating activities with students.
BIPOC Voices Activity Guide + Videos
The BIPOC Voices project is designed to support educators and student learning about Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) professionals who work as scientists* and community advocates. We have created a set of resources, including several videos and an activity guide, to inspire these explorations and critical conversations. In each video, the professionals share their reflections about their career journeys in response to a series of interview questions. The videos are five to fifteen minutes long. Our hope is that these resources cultivate all students' interest in community-centered STEM-related career pathways and their understanding of how BIPOC individuals and communities have always contributed to collective STEM endeavors.
Note: In this project, we define “science” and “scientist” in inclusive and expansive ways that honor the diverse knowledges and traditions sustained by marginalized communities. This broad definition recognizes, for example, practices of intergenerational collaboration, storytelling, and community activism as relevant and crucial to scientific inquiry.