Sherry Marts

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Sherry Marts
Sherry Marts at the 2018 Disobedience Awards at the MIT Media Lab (44348554450).
Sherry Marts at the 2018 Disobedience Awards at the MIT Media Lab (44348554450).
Nationality USA
Occupation consultant
Known for won an award for fighting sexual harrassment

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 was a PhD student at Duke University, working in cell biology, when she experienced serious sexual harrassment.[2] Marts left Duke.

She spent ten years in Washington, D.C., at the Society for Women’s Health Research, where she was the vice president for scientific affairs.[2]

In 2018 Marts shared a MIT Media Lab's Disobedience Award, given to individuals who fight sexual harrassment with BethAnn McLaughlin and Tarana Burke.[3]

In 2020 Marts described being bullied by her co-winner McLaughlin, and announced she was leaving the organization the pair helped found.[4]

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." 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Meredith Wadman (2018-11-27). "Scientists share MIT ‘disobedience’ award for #MeToo advocacy". Science magazine. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/metoo-advocates-share-mit-disobedience-award. 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." 
  3. Jonah Engel Bromwich; Ezra Marcus (2020-08-04). "The Anonymous Professor Who Wasn’t". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/style/college-coronavirus-hoax.html. Retrieved 2020-08-07. "Activists including Ms. Marts publicly distanced themselves from the embattled MeTooSTEM leader; they even officially resigned from the hashtag." 
  4. Sherry Marts (2020-02-21). "I have experienced bullying and intimidation by the founder of MeTooSTEM (which I refuse to use as.a hashtag anymore), and I split that damn prize with her. She isn’t the movement, and there are so many of us working to change the culture of STEM. It will happen. #STEMToo". Twitter. https://twitter.com/sherrymarts/status/1231059406328074240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1231059406328074240%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F08%2F04%2Fstyle%2Fcollege-coronavirus-hoax.html. Retrieved 2020-08-07.