Educator. Organizer.
Creator.
Dr. Anna Marie LaChance (she/her; pronunciation) is a chemical engineer and STEM educator with numerous professional and creative projects.
Through her teaching work, podcast (Rule 63), TikTok presence, and political organizing, Anna is an advocate for abolitionist engineering education and intersectional transfeminism.
Award-Winning Education
Bridging the gap between STEM and social justice.
Anna’s work revolves around intersectional liberation, whether that means making queer theory accessible to the masses, teaching environmental justice principles to chemical engineers, collaborating with LGBTQ+ people of color, or organizing for change within her community. She’s received numerous awards for her teaching, mentorship, and other service, including the 2024 College of Engineering DEI Award at UMass Amherst.
Also, she has great taste in music.
Teaching to Transgress
Anna is available for speaking engagements!
Anna also excels at bringing Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) work into her courses. Social justice and STEM are inseparable, which Anna has shown through her course modules (on environmental justice, anti-imperialism, A.I. and more) and through culturally-relevant feminist pedagogies.
Anna is currently a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is available to give seminar talks about everything from inclusive pedagogy to her own #TransInSTEM journey…as long as the price is right! Check out her qualifications below.
You can also support Anna’s work directly via Cashapp ($ThatAnnaMarie) or her Substack newsletter.
Accessible Plastics Education
A summer Gen Ed course for college students everywhere (and the rest of y’all too)!
Anna offers a course during Summer Session II (July thru mid August) all about plastics, recycling, and sustainability. This is a great way to earn college credit outside of the busy semester!
ChE 118 “Plastics in Society” is 100% virtual, open to all learners (including non-traditional students and non-STEM folk), requires NO prerequisites, and will satisfy a Gen Ed for current Five College students! Specifically, ChE 118 is an SI (Science Interdisciplinary) course which can be used to satisfy a Social World requirement.
Whether you’re curious about how plastic recycling works or you want to kickstart your environmental activism, this course is for you! Check out the syllabus here.
The course is now available to register for on SPIRE! Class #25902 or click the button below!