{"id":121,"date":"2018-08-10T15:22:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.carleton.edu\/mbaylor\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:06:31","slug":"community-involvement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mbaylor.people.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php\/community-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that it is important for me to be involved in the communities that I spend time in. I am a member of a variety of communities and so seek to be an active participant and contributor in many of them. Here are a selection of activities I am or have been involved in to give you a flavor of the things I am passionate about:<\/p>\n<h3>At Carleton College<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Current member of Faculty Personnel Committee (Tenure &amp; Promotion Committee)<\/li>\n<li>Host of Physicists from Underrepresented Genders (PUGs) events<\/li>\n<li>Organizer and facilitator of numerous Faculty\/Staff leadership professional development activities (e.g., workshops, speakers, lunch and learn meetings, and book groups)<\/li>\n<li>Former Chair of the Accessible and Inclusive Bathrooms Monitoring Team<\/li>\n<li>Former Chair of the Junior Faculty Affairs Committee<\/li>\n<li>Former Member of Education and Curriculum Committee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>In the Physics Community<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Member of the American Physical Society (APS) Panel of Public Affairs (POPA)<\/li>\n<li>Presenter for the Faculty Teaching Institute (FTI) sponsored by American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)<\/li>\n<li>Past Presenter and Panelist for several Conference for Undergraduate Women\/Gender Minorities in Physics (CUWiP\/CU*iP) conferences<\/li>\n<li>Former Steering Committee Member for several joint American Physical Society (APS)\/American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Department Chairs Meetings<\/li>\n<li>Lead Investigator APS Innovation Grant funded <a href=\"https:\/\/aps-edi-fellows-program.mailchimpsites.com\/\">EDI Fellows Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Former member and chair American Physical Society (APS) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aps.org\/about\/governance\/committees\/coe\/index.cfm\">Committee on Education<\/a> (COE)<\/li>\n<li>Former chair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsbp.org\/\">National Society of Black Physicists<\/a> (NSBP) Membership, Retention, and Recruitment Committee<\/li>\n<li>Co-organizer AALAC Engineering Connections in the Liberal Arts Workshop (<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/09\/161205EngineeringStudentFAQ.pdf\">Report<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Former Visit Team Member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aps.org\/programs\/women\/workshops\/gender-equity\/sitevisits\/\">APS Gender Equity \u2013 Conversation Site Visit<\/a> Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Community Outreach<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Run program on Electromagnetic Waves for the Northfield Middle School Summer BLAST Program<\/li>\n<li>Run program on Electromagnetic Waves for the Faribault Middle School Summer STEAM Program<\/li>\n<li>Assisted with Prairie Creek Elementary School Science Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/mbaylor.people.sites.carleton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2679-1edsnaq-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mbaylor.people.sites.carleton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2679-1edsnaq-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mbaylor.people.sites.carleton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2679-1edsnaq-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mbaylor.people.sites.carleton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2679-1edsnaq-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mbaylor.people.sites.carleton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2679-1edsnaq-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mbaylor.people.sites.carleton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2679-1edsnaq-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faribault Summer STEAM student playing with optical fibers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Northfield and Beyond<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Volunteer for the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/northfieldartsguild.org\/theater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northfield Arts Guild Theater<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Volunteer for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/habitatricecounty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rice County Habitat for Humanity<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Volunteer with the Middle School <a href=\"http:\/\/northfieldtorch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TORCH<\/span><\/a> Program<\/li>\n<li>Member of <a href=\"https:\/\/emmauschurch.org\/\">Emmaus Church<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that it is important for me to be involved in the communities that I spend time in. 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