Alliance to Strengthen the STEM Tapestry (ASSisT): Motivating Critical Identity Shifts to Weave the STEM Disenfranchised into Science and the Sustainability Workforce

Funded by an NSF INCLUDES grant, our team worked with two different STEM-disenfranchised populations (refugee youth and formerly incarcerated adults) to build self-efficacy using applied theatre techniques and to shift self-identity vis-a-vis science and sustainability.

Additional Info

  • Date: 2016-2018
  • Type: Research
  • Investigators / Instructors / Facilitators:

    Nalini Nadkarni, Sydney Cheek-O’Donnell, Russ Isabella, Jordan Gerton, Diane Pataki, Cecilia Waynrib, Monisha Pasupathi