Archives: Profiles

Ruzena Bajcsy was born in 1933 and grew up in Czechoslovakia. Because of the family’s Jewish background, all of her adult relatives were killed by the Nazis in 1944. Declared to […]

Amanda Parker serves as the Senior Director of Enrollment Management at CU Engineering. Amanda works to provide access, pathways, and support to prospective engineering students. Her focus is to increase

Sarah Miller currently serves as assistant dean at Yale University, where she provides leadership to advance science and engineering priorities on campus. Prior to this post, she worked as Associate Dean for

Nancy M. Amato is Abel Bliss Professor and Department Head of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Amato’s research focuses on robotic motion planning, computational biology and

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, MS is the Senior Program Manager for the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE). In this role, Kathleen assists a national team of equity professionals that build

Susan L. Thackeray is an Assistant Professor of Technology Management in the College of Technology and Computing at Utah Valley University (UVU). She has more than 20 years of demonstrated

Cynthia Lee is a Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Stanford. She founded peerinstruction4cs.org to support educators in flipping their computer science classrooms using peer instruction. Her teaching awards

Tommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel There There, a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever seen:

Ruha Benjamin is a Professor of African American studies at Princeton University and author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press). She has

Temple Grandin, PhD, is one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world. Her life was brought to the screen with the HBO full-length film Temple Grandin,

Patricia Palombo began her career in computing in 1959, when she was recruited as a programmer by IBM Corporation. IBM assigned her to a team working on Project Mercury, NASA’s

Lucy Simon Rakov has had a lifelong passion for mathematics, winning awards for math in high school and going on to obtain a math degree from Wellesley College. In 1960,

For almost 25 years, Dawn Morrison has dedicated her public life to working on behalf of students enrolled in public schools in Virginia and Alabama. She is currently employed with

Listen to the one-of-a-kind song here! Originally hailing from Lewiston, Maine, Matt McAtee moved to Nashville to pursue a full-time career in music in the Summer of 2000. Since that

Listen to the one-of-a-kind song here! Dayna Bee was born and raised in Sarasota, FL where she began playing violin at the age of four. She obtained her Bachelorʼs Degree

Carol Cohen is the Senior Vice President and Head of Talent at CVS Health. In this role, Carol’s team is responsible for attracting, retaining, developing, and engaging talent to unlock

Nicole T. Castro, MA, (she/her) is a community-scholar and biracial woman of color. Working with couples and families, community groups and corporations, Nicole guides difficult conversations, teaching lifelong skills to

Lisa is currently leading AT&T’s Technology Development Program, which serves as the feeder pool for the organization’s future leaders. She is also responsible for AT&T’s Technology and Operations Skills Transformation

Reboot is a coalition of leading tech companies that have committed nearly $14M over the next three years toward a goal of doubling the number of Black, Latina, and Native American women

Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn is an assistant professor at the Columbia School of Social Work and a faculty affiliate of the Columbia Population Research Center. Her research integrates principles and

Watch Ilia K. Walsh’s Summit interview here Ilia K. Walsh, M.S.Ed., M.B.A. is the Director of Training and Education at The Asperger/Autism Network (AANE) and has been with AANE since

Joshua E. Perry (J.D., M.T.S.) is Glaubinger Chair for Undergraduate Leadership and Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in Bloomington. He also serves

Nicholas Wyant serves as a Facilitator Advocate for Indiana University’s Male Advocates and Allies for Equity program. His faculty appointment is as the Librarian for Criminal Justice, Social Work, and

Jocelyn Garibay is a Program Director at Code2040. At Code2040 Jocelyn has worked across 70 tech companies delivering trainings and consulting around navigating bias, sitting in productive and hard conversations

Dr. Tom James is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. His research focuses on the role of sensory systems in decision making and more recently