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Her personal essay explores her experiences as an academic with immigrant working-class roots. Teves has been exploring and writing about diversity and inclusion in the sciences as part of her Wall Scholar residency.
Leaving home and entering the academic world took me further and further from my immigrant working-class roots. Every so often, though, I would meet other Filipino immigrants working in the university as janitors, building maintenance staff, shipping and receiving workers, and lab aides. When I stepped back into my academic role, I would play the confident and assertive scientist.
At some point I realized I only stopped to talk with the other Filipino immigrants when I was alone, which made me feel guilty. But I convinced myself that I was just being sensitive to my lab mates; after all, it would be rude to converse in another language when they were around.
You can read the rest of Dr. Sheila Teves in Sciencemag. Related People.
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