An MIT staff member writes, "Minority Education: the people at the beginning and how "new diversity" -- who are the "underrepresented" at each point?

"Consider working with Diversity Teams to show who WASN'T (officially) here at MIT in the early years, but was tied into MIT somehow along the way...work with Office of Minority Education, capture "oral history" of those trailblazers....to map the "history" of the "under-represented" voices/faces: women of color who are scientists, Dr. Mae Jemison, first African American woman in space; and images in tv Star Trek (LeVar Burton) and how MIT makes the "imaginary" turn into the real...

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www.maejemison.com

"Dr. Mae Jemison became a NASA astronaut, but born in 1961 was not encouraged at all to be a woman scientist... but I bet MIT has a tie to her career path anyhow... accidental meetings. etc - did she know Ron McNair, etc"