The People’s Science Fair

Friday, April 8, Noon to 4 p.m.

Goodell Lawn and Bernie Dallas Room, UMass Amherst

The People’s Science Fair, organized by Western Mass Science for the People, will showcase diverse efforts by Western Massachusetts residents to harness STEM for social, economic, environmental, and cultural justice. Participants will include campus-based researchers with justice-oriented projects, grassroots organizers whose work involves STEM knowledge, and student activists committed to building a just future.  

Tables (15-20 community organizations) will represent a wide range of projects and offer many opportunities for cross-pollination between:

• sustainable agriculture and farmworker justice
• demilitarization and climate action
• community-based medicine and health equity
• science education, the arts, and social justice
• labor unions and anti-racist organizing in STEM
• history, anthropology, and science activism
• and much more!

There will be a food truck (Baby Berk) and live music too.

https://westernmass.scienceforthepeople.org/peoples-science-fair-2022/

Co-Sponsors to Date:
Five Colleges, Inc.
At UMass: Department of Afro-American Studies; Department of Anthropology; College of Information and Computer Sciences; School of Earth and Sustainability; Economics Department; ELEVATE; Energy Transition Institute; Ethnography Collective @ UMASS Amherst; Graduate Employee Organization; History Department; Massachusetts Society of Professors; Math and Statistics Department; Professional Staff Union; Social Thought & Political Economy Program; Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies Department; Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Department.
At Smith: Center for Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability; Department of Geosciences; Department of Environmental Science & Policy; Jandon Center for Community Engagement; Spatial Analysis Lab