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Upset the set up: Moving from community engagement to community empowerment

2021 ASHG Invited Session

Race and genetics: using genetics to fight health disparities

Why genetics is relevant for the average layperson to know and how genetics is used to fight against racial and ethnic disparities

How to Navigate Public Outreach as a Trainee: An Interview with Markia Smith

The US has seen an erosion of public trust throughout the pandemic. This erosion is the result of misinformation, mixed messaging from leaders, and rapid changes in our knowledge of COVID-19. The Nascent Transcript had the opportunity to sit down with PhD Candidate, Markia Smith (she/her) a 4th year PhD Candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she uses integrative genomic approaches to study environmental and epidemiological factors of cancer that lead to health disparities in historically marginalized populations. She is also the co-organizer and current President of Black in Genetics (twitter @BlackInGenetics), an organization that amplifies the voices and work of Black-identifying geneticists. You can follow Markia on Twitter at @MarkiaASmith.

A Spotlight On: Black in Genetics - Alexis Stutzman and Markia Smith

In this week’s A Spotlight On interview, we are joined by the team from Black in Genetics, an organisation dedicated to amplifying voices and work by Black-identifying geneticists across the United States and beyond. In this interview, Alexis Stutzman and Markia Smith discuss their journey to setting up the group and their plans for the future.

How Do We Ensure Equity in Medicine?

As part of our Faces of Science: Ambassadors for Equity project, we talk with graduate student Markia Smith about her research in cancer and genetics, understanding health disparities in historically marginalized populations, and why she chose these areas of study

Black voices bring much needed context to our data-driven society

BLACK COMMUNITIES ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO DEMOCRATIZE DATA AND MAKE THE FIELD MORE INCLUSIVE

Welcoming 2021

After a year turned upside-down by the COVID-19 pandemic, and now with promising vaccine news on the horizon, we can start looking forward to a new year with the hope that 2021 will bring exciting things to the science community. Here, Nature Genetics shares what we are awaiting in 2021.

Chat with #BlackinGenetics organizer Markia Smith about Systemic Racism in Science

This chat was designed to give a voice to historically marginalized communities to explore the role of racism in genetics.

Diversity Luncheon with Joan Reede and BIG

Diversity Luncheon with BIG

BlackInData

Black folx in informatics + data science + coding