#WCW with Laura Fuentes-Dominguez 🔬👩🏽🔬 Laura Fuentes-Dominguez is a biomedical engineer. After the 1999 earthquake in Colombia, Laura and her family became involved in volunteering in citywide recovery efforts over the…
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#WCW with Diana Trujillo
#WCW with Diana Trujillo 🚀🛠 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…
#wcw with Mareena Robinson Snowden
#wcw with Mareena Robinson Snowden 🔬👩🏾🎓👩🏾🔬 Mareena Robinson Snowden is the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Although she hadn’t…
#WCW with Debbie Sterling
#WCW with Debbie Sterling 🛠 Debbie Sterling is the founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, which she created to challenge the gender gap between children in STEM and the pink aisle of toy…
#WCW honoring Lynn Conway
#WCW honoring Lynn Conway 💻 Lynn Conway studied physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before earning her B.S. and M.S.E.E. at Columbia University in the City of New York. Lynn joined IBM Research, working on…
#WCW with Lina Chen and Naomi Ladizinsky
#WCW with Lina Chen and Naomi Ladizinsky 🎮📱💻 Lina Chen and Naomi Ladizinsky are the co-founders of Nix Hydra, an LA-based gaming company that creates mobile games for young women…
#WCW with Keiana Cavé
#WCW with Keiana Cavé 🔬 Keiana Cavé is only 19 but has already had her work published in two scientific research papers and two patents. 🔬 Keiana is currently studying Chemical…
#WCW with Dr. Jane Goodall
#WCW with Dr. Jane Goodall 🔍 Jane Goodall is a primatologist and anthropologist who has studied chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania extensively to better understand animal behavior. Through…
#TBT honoring Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)
#TBT honoring Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) 🔬 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…
#WCW with Mayim Bialik
#WomanCrushWednesday #WCW Mayim Bialik is an scientist and actress (playing Amy on The Big Bang Theory). She graduated with a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA and teaches young children about science!
#WCW with Annie Jean-Baptiste
#WCW with Annie Jean-Baptiste 💻 Annie Jean-Baptiste is Google’s Global Product Inclusion Evangelist, working to help technology make room to engage in philanthropy and strengthening inclusion practices. Rather than becoming a…
#WCW – Luz Rivas
#WCW with Luz Rivas 💻 Luz Rivas is the founder and executive director of DIY Girls, an organization that encourages girls interested in technology and engineering. DIY Girls provides innovative educational experiences…