{"id":926,"date":"2020-06-10T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=926"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:58:10","slug":"as-scientists-we-have-yet-to-close-the-racial-disparities","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/as-scientists-we-have-yet-to-close-the-racial-disparities\/","title":{"rendered":"What is missing in the STEM field?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/10\/climate\/climate-scientists-strike-black-lives-matter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate Fwd: newsletter<\/a>, Dr. Ngumbi was interviewed about the ned for more black scientists and how far we have to go to close the racial disparities gap. Only about 9% of bachelor\u2019s degrees in science and engineering go to Black students. Dr. Ngumbi states, \u201cI go to conferences, and I\u2019m often the only person of color in the room. You sit in a classroom and all the scientists that are being introduced are white, white, white\u2026\u201d As the United States is reckoning with how Black people are being treated within the criminal justice system, the scientific field is also having a tough look within itself on the systemic racism that exists within the STEM field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","publication_category":[46],"publication_theme":[54,55,71],"class_list":["post-926","stories","type-stories","status-publish","hentry","publication_category-features","publication_theme-economic","publication_theme-health-equity","publication_theme-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}