STEM Fatale Podcast

Episode 077 - Edna Paisano | Statistician & Sociologist

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Emma tells Emlyn all about Edna Paisano, the woman who combined her skills in mathematics and sociology to make the US Census more inclusive!

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Sources

Main Story - Edna Lee Paisano

  1. Edna L. Paisano | Obituaries | lmtribune.com
  • Sterrett, Andrew. 101 Careers in Mathematics. 1996. https://archive.org/details/101careersinmath0000unse/page/136/mode/2up?q=paisano 
  • U.S. Census Bureau. We, the First Americans. 1993. https://www.census.gov/prod/cen1990/wepeople/we-5.pdf 
  • U.S. Census Bureau. “Ch. 5: American Indian and Alaska Native Areas” Geographic Areas Reference Manual. https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/GARM/Ch5GARM.pdf 
  • Why We Conduct the Decennial Census. U.S. Census Bureau.
  • Roos, David. How the Census Works | HowStuffWorks. 2020
  • U.S. Census Bureau. Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test. 1997.
  • Lujan, Carol. As Simple as One, Two, Three: Census Underenumeration Among the American Indians and Alaska Natives. 1990. 
  • Connolly, Colleen. COVID-19 Adds a New Snag to the 2020 Census Count of Native Americans. Smithsonian Magazine. 2020.
  • Connolly, Michele and Jacobs, Bette. Counting Indigenous American Indians and Alaska Natives in the US census. 1 Jan. 2020 : 201 – 210. 
  • Lossom, Allen. By Right of Discovery: United Indians of All Tribes Retakes Fort Lawton, 1970 - Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. 2006.

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