Sherry Marts

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Sherry Marts is an consultant on sexual harrassment.[1] She is a former academic who advises scientific associations on how to address and ameliorate institutionalized sexual harrassment. Marts describes leaving her academic career when she experienced serious sexual harrassment.

In 2018 Marts was a finalist for the MIT Media Lab's Disobedience Award, given to individuals who fight sexual harrassment.



References

  1. Diane Kwon (2019-09-25). "Scientific Societies Update Policies to Address #MeToo". The Scientist. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/scientific-societies-update-policies-to-address--metoo--66492. Retrieved 2020-08-07. "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." 

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