PhD candidate, Rim Khazall, invited to guest blog for Scientific American
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
When Sci asked me to guest blog for her week of diversity, I was at first flattered but then I had a few moments of hesitation. I ran through a mental list of why I shouldn’t write the post, did I really have anything of substance to offer? Did I want to be part of the remedial process that SciAm is doing to show how diverse and tolerant they are?
To address my first hesitation I acknowledged that, I am a minority within a minority within a minority. Minority status ^3. Therefore, I must have something to contribute to the diversity conversation…