Sherry Marts

Sherry Marts
Sherry Marts at the 2018 Disobedience Awards at the MIT Media Lab (44348554450).
Marts in 2018
NationalityAmerican
EducationB.Sc. in Applied Biology from the University of Hertfordshire, Ph.D. in Physiology from Duke University[1]
Occupationconsultant
Known forresearch in genetics, advocacy against sexual harassment

Sherry Marts is an American consultant on sexual harassment[2] and academic who advises scientific associations on how to address and ameliorate institutionalized sexual harassment. While Marts was a PhD student at Duke University, working in cell biology, she experienced serious sexual harassment.[3][1]

At Duke University, she was the co-chairperson of the Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC), an organization that she helped to found.[4][5]

She spent 10 years in Washington, D.C., at the Society for Women’s Health Research, where she was the vice president for scientific affairs.[3]

In 2018 Marts shared an MIT Disobedience Award, given to individuals who fight sexual harassment, with BethAnn McLaughlin and Tarana Burke. In 2020 Marts stopped associating with McLaughlin and stopped using the #MeTooSTEM hashtag.[6][7]

In September 2019 she was appointed executive director of the Genetics Society of America.[1]

Selected publications

  • Dana, Raven; Marts, Sherry (2013). The Book of How: Answers to Life's Most Important Question. Bird & Beverage Press. ISBN 9780989311724.
  • Becker, Jill B.; Arnold, Arthur P.; Berkley, Karen J.; Blaustein, Jeffrey D.; Eckel, Lisa A.; Hampson, Elizabeth; Herman, James P.; Marts, Sherry; Sadee, Wolfgang; Steiner, Meir; Taylor, Jane; Young, Elizabeth (1 April 2005). "Strategies and Methods for Research on Sex Differences in Brain and Behavior". Endocrinology. 146 (4): 1650–1673. doi:10.1210/en.2004-1142. hdl:2027.42/49483. PMID 15618360.

References

  1. ^ a b c Edelman, Phyllis (September 2019). "Sherry Marts Named as New GSA Executive Director" (PDF). Bethesda, Maryland: Genetics Society of America. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2020-08-07. Prior to her work at SWHR, she worked in research administration and advocacy in biomedical services at the American Red Cross, and directed biomedical research grant programs in Alzheimer's disease, glaucoma, and cardiovascular disease at the American Health Assistance Foundation. She received her B.Sc. (Hons.) in Applied Biology from the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and her Ph.D. in Physiology from Duke University, Durham, NC.
  2. ^ Kwon, Diane (September 25, 2019). "Scientific Societies Update Policies to Address #MeToo". The Scientist. Archived from the original on July 27, 2020. Retrieved August 7, 2020. Conferences, in particular, are common sites of sexual harassment. "I think it's a combination of the old—and hopefully passing away—attitude of, 'what happens at the meeting stays at the meeting,' and, 'this isn't a work place, so I don't have to obey the rules here,'" says Sherry Marts, a consultant who advises scientific societies on how to address harassment.
  3. ^ a b Meredith Wadman (2018-11-27). "Scientists share MIT 'disobedience' award for #MeToo advocacy". Science magazine. Archived from the original on 2019-10-13. Retrieved 2020-08-07. Marts, the other scientist honored, left science after enduring sexual harassment while completing a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
  4. ^ Hilsenrath, Jon (September 13, 1985). "Lack of interest plagues GPSC". The Duke Chronicle. pp. 3, 15. Retrieved 2020-09-29. Sherry Marts, GPSC co-chairperson, would like to see graduate students with more of a voice in the University
  5. ^ Marts, Sherry (September 20, 1985). "GPSC Story Misleading". The Duke Chronicle. p. 12. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  6. ^ Jonah Engel Bromwich; Ezra Marcus (2020-08-04). "The Anonymous Professor Who Wasn't". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2020-08-10. Retrieved 2020-08-07. Activists including Ms. Marts publicly distanced themselves from the embattled MeTooSTEM leader; they even officially resigned from the hashtag.
  7. ^ Aldhous, Peter (February 22, 2020). "The Leading #MeToo Activist Group In Science Is In Turmoil After More Leaders Resign". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2020-08-11.