Events
Dr Anna Marie LaChance (She/Her/Hers)
- Venue: Virtual
- Start: Tue, 10 May 2022 06:58:00 BST
- End: Tue, 10 May 2022 06:58:00 BST
About Anna Marie
Dr. Anna Marie LaChance is a chemical engineer and STEM educator with numerous professional and creative projects. Through her teaching work, podcast (Rule 63), social media presence, and local political organizing, she is an advocate for abolitionist engineering education and intersectional transfeminism.
Anna transitioned at the age of 22 while getting her PhD in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. As a graduate student, she has mentored dozens of women and gender-diverse people in STEM, empowering them to bring their “full selves” into their engineering work. She has served as a member of several graduate student organizations and has been widely recognized for her research, teaching, and mentorship, most recently with the 2021 Connecticut Women of Innovation® Award in the Inspiring STEM Equitability category by the Connecticut Technology Council—Anna was the first openly transgender or non-binary person to win in any category in the award’s 17-year history.
Now with her doctoral degree, she is currently working as a program coordinator for the Vergano Institute for Inclusion at the University of Connecticut. In September 2022, she will start as a teaching faculty for the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as a Lecturer.
