Conference Session

LGBTQ+ Track - Technical Session IV

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Zoe Reidinger

Tagged Topics

Diversity, LGBTQ+

decision to come out during a job interview, career counselors atWPI help prepare students to think about taking jobs in states that have fewer or noprotections for LGBTQ+ people. “If they’re going to Oklahoma,” this person told us,“they need to understand the legal protections they don’t have there, that they do havehere.” LGBTQ people are “a group that you can legally discriminate against in certainparts of the country still in terms of employment,” our source told us. In ResidentialServices, one of the professional staff organized a 5-week course on social justice and 11diversity for university employees and student Resident Advisors. He was recognized