Scientists of color are disrupting the rules of historically colonial institutions in Stem and academia. For Earyn McGee, that means engaging with her public through games
“McGee is part of a new generation of scientists who are determined to restore the relationship between science and the general public, particularly those who have been historically excluded. For McGee, community is key; it’s the small steps that can create lasting change, she firmly believes. “As a lone individual, you can’t necessarily always make the progress that that you would like to see,” she said. “But by helping a couple of people, they can go on to help a couple more people – and so on and so forth. Eventually, you’ll get enough people to where you can actually do something.”
“Everything in America is built on white supremacy,” she said. Academic environments and institutions are simply not set up for Black and brown people to succeed. McGee wants to change this. As things are now, it’s a world that “cannot be an inclusive space because it was meant to be exclusive”, she told me. “You gotta learn the rules to disrupt the game.””
