June is Pride month, and an opportunity to highlight the LGBTQ+ members of the STEM community.β π³οΈβππ» Rachel Renock is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wethos, “a platform built to…
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Pride Highlights
June is Pride month, and an opportunity to highlight the LGBTQ+ members of the STEM community. π³οΈβππ» Leanne Pittsford is the CEO and founder of Lesbians Who Tech, the largest…
#MedMondays with Sophia Jex-Blake
June is Pride month, and an opportunity to highlight the LGBTQ+ members of the STEM community.π³οΈβπ Sophia Jex-Blake (1840-1912) was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. Along with six other…
#National Nurses’ Day
Happy #NationalNursesDay, with a look at Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. π©ββοΈπ₯ Clara Barton was passionate about helping others and spent most of her life in public…
#MakerMonday with Kathryn Finney
π»Kathryn Finney is the founder and Managing Director of DigitalUndivided, which develops programs to increase the participation of urban communities in the digital space and runs tech entrepreneurship programs for…
Happy #nationaldoctorsday
π©π½ββοΈ An excellent occasion to honor Dr. May Edward Chinn π¬ Dr. May Edward Chinn spent her career researching cancer, helping to develop the Pap smear and advocating for early…
#MathMonday with Katherine Johnson (or the Barbie version of her!)
π¬Katherine Johnson is an American mathematician who calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many spacecraft during her more than three decades with the U.S. space program. Her work helped…
#MathMonday with Annie Easley
π¬βIf I canβt work with you, I will work around you.β
#MedMondays celebrating Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee
π©πΎββοΈDr. Barbara Ross-Lee was the first African-American woman to serve as dean of an American medical school. Barbara was born in Detroit and raised in a housing project, facing years…
#mathmonday highlighting Euphemia Lofton Haynes!
π¬Euphemia Lofton Haynes is the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics! She worked to improve the education system, which hadnβt allowed black students to succeed in the…
With rising anti-semitism, now is a better time than ever to honor Jewish women in STEM like Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)
π¬Rosalind Franklin has made tremendous contributions to molecular biology, including being one of the scientists responsible for modeling human DNA. Rosalind grew up in a Jewish family in London and…
#MakersMonday with Diana Trujillo
ππ Diana Trujillo in an aerospace engineer who works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on both human and robotic space missions. Diana was born and raised in Cali, Colombia and…