All posts by Lisette E. Torres

About Lisette E. Torres

Lisette E. Torres is a trained scientist and disabled scholar-activist whose work focuses on addressing racial and gender inequity in science. As a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at Iowa State University, she is examining how scientist bloggers of color disrupt or maintain master narratives surrounding knowledge production and dissemination as public intellectuals. She also works full-time as an assistant director of a writing center at Nebraska Wesleyan University. She is a co-founder of the National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (CNLD) and an active member of Science for the People. She loves to spend time with her family going to nature areas as well as practicing Taiji as a member of the Lincoln Taiji Association.