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Cheryl Calhoun currently serves as Dean of Educational Centers and Director of the Blount Center for Santa Fe College. Her experience includes 20 years as a professor of Information Technology […]

Born and raised in and around Chicago, Matt Blakely has more than 14 years of experience working with private and corporate foundations. Since October 2005, Matt has coordinated the foundation

Cassidy Williams is a computer science undergraduate at Iowa State University. With four internships under her belt (including Microsoft and General Mills) and one more upcoming (at Intuit in San Francisco), she keeps

As manager of Corporate Citizenship, Carleen Beste is responsible for the development and implementation of Northrop Grumman’s Corporate Citizenship strategic plan and programming which includes K-12 education, troops and veterans,

Jean E. Sammet is a retired computer scientist and programmer who is best-known for her work on FORMAC, the first widely used general language and system for manipulating nonnumeric algebraic

Ben Eater is the Lead Exercise Developer at Khan Academy, a non-profit education platform dedicated to providing a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.  Khan Academy is most well-known for

Eileen, now with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, led the Motorola Foundation in its mission to benefit the communities in which it operates around the world, by making strategic grants, forging

Mike Younkers, Senior Director of Systems Engineering for Cisco’s US Federal team, directs teams of system engineers to support a $2B business in civilian, defense and intelligence areas. He has

Since 2004, Jan Cuny has been the Program Officer for the CISE Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program at the National Science Foundation. Before coming to NSF, Jan was a

Wendy Hawkins is Executive Director of the Intel Foundation.  The Intel Foundation is active worldwide, awarding grants totaling approximately $45 million each year and focusing on STEM education (science, technology,

Stacy L. Smith’s research focuses on children’s responses to mass media portrayals (television, film, video games) of violence, gender and hypersexuality. Dr. Smith (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1999)

Patricia H. Deyton is the Director of the Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO), the internationally recognized research arm of the Simmons School of Management addressing gender, diversity and organizational

Michael Lach is the Director of STEM policy and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute. He provides local, regional and national leadership on STEM education and

Lynette Kvasny received her Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems from the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. Her research focuses on how and why historically underserved groups appropriate information

David Evans has taught two large open courses for Udacity, including an introductory Computer Science course that enrolled more than 265,000 students from over 180 countries, ranging in age from six months

Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., is a leading researcher in the field of motivation and is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford. Her research focuses on why

Maggie Johnson is Director of Education and University Relations for Google. She manages all technical education, content development, and information management programs for Google engineers and operations staff, as well

Jeff Forbes is a Program Director for the Education and Workforce program in the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (NSF CISE), managing programs that

As Director of Public Policy for ACM, Cameron Wilson develops and oversees ACM’s public policy agenda with specialized focus on technology policy, including information technology research and development funding, computing

Terry Hogan is the Executive Director and CEO at NCWIT. Her career began at U.S. WEST where she was the lead engineer of the original region-wide dialup Internet access service

Kimberly Bryant is the Founder and Executive Director of Black Girls CODE, a non-profit organization dedicated to introducing young girls of color to the field of technology and computer programming

Pooja (Nath) Sankar is the founder and CEO of Piazza, the leading social learning platform for students and teachers in higher education.  She has worked at Oracle, Kosmix, and Facebook,

Enobong Hannah Branch is the Associate Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion and the Chief Diversity Officer for UMass-Amherst as well as an Associate Professor of Sociology. She provides strategic leadership

Dr. Sapna Cheryan is an associate professor of social psychology at the University of Washington. Her research investigates the role of cultural stereotypes in causing and perpetuating racial and gender

Education: Ph.D. Policy Analysis, Arizona State University Areas of Expertise: Research-based initiatives to recruit and retain women in STEM, evaluation of NSF-funded programs focusing on STEM issues, qualitative research methods,