October 25, 2023

As featured in Inverse: Practitioners of science spend their lives conjuring questions and searching for answers. Despite the pursuit of truth, Lisa M. P. Munoz has found that the sciences are riddled with systemic biases in plain sight. Throughout her career, first as an engineer and later as a science communicator, she has experienced this firsthand and listened to […]

I shared a bit about the writing of my book for the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) Advance Copy : I started writing the book after working as the publicist for the Emmy-nominated documentary Picture a Scientist and deeply connecting to the topic of gender inequities in science. It made me reflect on my early experiences […]

October 13, 2023

If you had asked me to draw an engineer when I was in middle school, I would have drawn my big sister. I would go on to pursue engineering just like her. She chose that path after watching informational college videos, designed to recruit women into the profession, showing how much engineers could make a […]

October 11, 2023

When I was an engineering student at Cornell University, one of my first assignments in a science communications class was to analyze scientists in films to better understand public perception of science. Jurassic Park, Contact, Armageddon, Back to the Future—there were many to choose from. I went with the lesser-known Manhattan Project, which is about a secret plutonium refinement lab […]

August 31, 2023

Equity is about universal ideas of retention, fairness, well-being, and accountability in the workplace. That was the key message about which I spoke to some 300 economic geologists at the annual meeting of the Society of Economic Geologists in London this week. The organizers of the meeting invited me not only to give a talk […]

July 31, 2023

So excited to kick off this new blog with news about the upcoming launch of Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity (Columbia University Press). In the the first of two book launch events, I will read from my book at Bards Alley in Northern Virginia, on October 20, 2023 at 6pm. […]

In March 2022, Lisa spoke with Rachel Morford, President of the Society of Women Engineers, about how women’s inequities for women in the STEM workforce have evolved over time, the potential causes for women being uncredited and underrepresented, and a few stories about forgotten women in science (including taking inspiration from one of her daughters, […]

In December 2021, Lisa spoke with Roberta Rincon, associate director of research for the Society of Women Engineers, about the upcoming book tentatively titled A New Picture of a Scientist: Creating a New Culture for Science That Overcomes Obstacles in Equity. In the new book, to be published by Columbia University Press, Lisa examines research-based […]

December 14, 2021

December 14, 2021 – Miranda Martin, Editor in Physical and Life Sciences for Columbia University Press, recently signed seasoned science writer Lisa M.P. Munoz to a contract for worldwide rights for her first book, tentatively titled A New Picture of a Scientist: Creating a New Culture for Science That Overcomes Obstacles in Equity. The signing includes […]