Board 16: Work in Progress: Designing a course to equip Bioengineering graduate students with effective and equitable teaching skills

Abstract

Callan Monette (she/her/hers) is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Bioengineering at Stanford University. She believes that communicating science in an accessible and equitable way is an essential skill and responsibility for every scientist, and she is committed to building these skills and creating training opportunities for scientists and engineers at every experience level to practice and value inclusive pedagogy. Callan is a graduate teaching consultant with the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning, a co-coordinator of the Bioengineering TA program, and a Leadership in Inclusive Teaching Fellow at Stanford.