This year for Mother’s Day I want to highlight the woman most directly responsible for helping to guide my life both personally and professionally, my mother. In the year 2001, she graduated with her degree in multimedia design. By that time, she was already a wife and mother of two. I sat down with her recently to discuss how she entered the tech field and what her experience has been like over the last 20 years of her career.
Read MoreThis past week, I had the opportunity to attend the 2017 National Diversity Women’s Business Leadership Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. It was an honor to be in the same room with so many phenomenal women who stand for...
Read MoreAlthough recent studies indicate that women earn over half of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) bachelors’ degrees in the U.S. (National Center for Education Statistics, 2015), they only make up about one...
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It was going to be an exciting month for six girls from Herat, Afghanistan. Chosen from 150...
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This week, 20th Century Fox released the official trailer for Hidden Figures, a film based on the...
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“I really enjoyed math and science and working with computers growing up, but I wasn’t...
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I will not argue that there is a scarcity of women and people of color for certain disciplines,...
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Yet another study has just been released that shows that no matter how well women perform on a...
Read MoreA while back, Mary-Frances (aka my Mom 🙂 ) wrote the 7 reasons why she does this work. We had been discussing for a while about me starting my own column in The Inclusion Solution, “GenY on D&I” (catchy name,...
Read MoreHave you ever noticed that the toy industry perpetuates stereotypes about gender roles? Girls play with dolls and bake cakes. Boys drive, build and compete. An engineer named Debbie Sterling is doing her part to...
Read MoreIt is common knowledge that the trend for the US in educational achievement is lagging the rest of the world. We have stagnated or in many areas we are losing ground. It is also no secret to most that the trends for students of...
Read MoreWhen I opened the hood to my first car, a used 1972 Dodge Dart, I remember thinking, “I can handle this.” The car engine was about as complicated as a lawn mower engine – not very complicated at all – and it was nice and...
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