Uplifting Women in STEM
Feminism NOW25 Syys 2024

Uplifting Women in STEM

Welcome to season 3 of Feminism NOW! This season, our theme is “Women Uplifting Women,” and we are thrilled to open with a field where women need a lot of uplift: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. NOW National President Christian F. Nunes speaks with Dr. Jamika Burge, Co-Founder and Board President of blackcomputeHER.org, INC, Head of Enterprise Design Research at Capital One, and a contributor to the 2022 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Consensus study report, “Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech.”

Guest: Jamika D. Burge, PhD, is Co-Founder and Board President of blackcomputeHER.org, INC. Dr. Burge is an authority in research and programming that investigates the intersectionality of Black women and girls in computing, and she is also a tech founder (and principal) of Design & Technology Concepts, LLC. Jamika is also Head of Enterprise Design Research at Capital One. She is also the Founder of Capital One’s Intersectional Symposium. Jamika was a contributor to the 2022 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Consensus study report, “Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech,” and the host of its podcast, Transforming Tech: Advancing Innovation through Inclusion.

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