STEM FROM DANCE SESSION INFORMATION

JULY 16,2020: 10:15 - 10:45 AM EDT (UTC -4)

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Introduction to STEM From Dance

We are thrilled to welcome Yamilée Toussaint Beach, Founder & CEO of STEM From Dance. We hope you join us to learn about STEM From Dance and discuss how we can share our work with the public and young students to encourage and support a diverse future of STEM leaders.

Excerpt from the STEM From Dance website:
“STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, but it means much more than that. STEM is the science of using data and information to solve some of the world’s greatest problems. It features some of our country’s most high-impact and innovative jobs, yet it is greatly lacking in diversity.

STEM From Dance exists to tackle diversity in the STEM workforce. We want to see a world in which the STEM workforce is just as diverse as our population.

Yamilée Toussaint Beach founded STEM From Dance in 2012 after her own experience in college. As a dancer who studied engineering, she found many synergies between what she learned in both dance and in the classroom, helping her build the skills she needed. She also experienced firsthand what it was like to be a woman of color in a field where Black and Latina women represent only 4% of the workforce.”

Yamilée Toussaint Beach has been dancing all her life – from early childhood, to studying mechanical engineering at MIT, to teaching high school algebra in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn. While teaching, she became aware of just how few opportunities her students had to engage with science and how much potential was being suppressed. To change this, Toussaint Beach invoked her background in dance to design a program that would unleash the potential of girls of color in New York City In this video, see how Toussaint Beach is reinventing what it means for girls of color to engage with STEM.