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An advocate for first-generation and low-income students across MIT, senior Tanner Bonner seeks ways to build up the communities around him. “I love to think about systems and society, and how we work together and make the best use of what we have, to ensure what we have is given equitably,” he says.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology The classroom in fall 2020 looked very different than it did when WGS.160/STS.021 (Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power) ran for the first time in 2019. Zoom and virtual breakout rooms had replaced circles of chairs, but the shifts made the class no less immersive and urgent for its students. In fact, the pandemic context made the core questions of this new survey class all the more vivid: What roles have U.S. scientists and technologists played as activists in crucial social issues and movements following WWII? What are their motivations, responsibi...