WOAA - ALLYSHIP IN AEROSPACE
Saturday, August 29th
5:00 PM EDT, YouTube Live
Hosted by the Women of Aeronautics and Astronautics Outreach Committee within AIAA.
The below is directly quoted from the attached flyer. How to RSVP is also in the attached flyer.
The Purpose of the Upcoming WoAA Allyship PanelThere were many long discussions between the WoAA D&I group and the WoAA leadership with a spectral team talking through this panel and understanding it's implications. We knew we might get some blowback considering our choice to highlight folks who are in the majority in their organizations, but we wanted to push back on the unfortunately all too common idea that diversity isn't a problem for white men. As Gen. Bolden mentioned in our previous anti-racism panel, it is not on the underrepresented groups to solve, it is on those in the majority to solve these problems. Our intent for this panel is to reach people who find themselves in a situation where they are not in a marginalized group and hold them accountable in addressing this responsibility.Going forward, we have many events planned highlighting underrepresented groups similar to our first panel event. We wanted to take this opportunity to engage allies of underrepresented groups and open the conversation on how non-marginalized people can support change around them.------------------------------
Christine Pastor-Barsi
Aerospace Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center
Cleveland OH
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