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Wear All the Hats!: Melissa Chan Climbs Boulders and Saves the Earth
Welcome back to the newest installment of the Unsung Women’s Project! We’ll be highlighting amazing women in STEM, sharing the stories of all of the incredible, meaningful things women have done in their STEM careers that haven’t gotten the recognition they deserve. Dr. Chan has over 15 years of experience in evaluating energy technology innovation to satisfy regulatory and policy goals related to energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, energy security, and environmental issues. Dr. Melissa Chan has contributed to utility microgrid planning, remote community power supply, and energy internet of things (eIoT) strategy.
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2018 By and Beyond the Numbers, Plus a Look Ahead
2018… we made it. Whew! First, we want to thank you for being a part of the Inclusion Geeks community. Even if you haven’t been to an event or participated in a workshop yet, we know that you’re here for a reason, and that’s to make a positive difference in the world, fight for a more equal and just world, and support women and nonbinary people in tech and beyond. In 2018, we made a very important change to our name.
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“I’m Interested in Everything”: Jennifer Livengood on Lifelong Learning
Welcome back to the third installment of our newest blog series: the Unsung Women’s Project! We’ll be highlighting amazing women in STEM, sharing the stories of all of the incredible, meaningful things women have done in their STEM careers that haven’t gotten the recognition they deserve. Many consider Jennifer Livengood to be the next driving force in the instructional design and technology industry. From a professor in recreation and sport to an instructional designer, Jennifer’s non-traditional career path has led to many experiences that influence the work she does today.
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Superhero Series: Empathy, Active Listening, and The Platinum Rule
Supergirl continues to be a treasure trove of lessons on inclusion in the workplace. In the same episode referred to in Part One of this series, Supergirl’s sister Alex is the new Director of the Department of Extranormal Operations (‘DEO’) and she’s managing a new employee, Braniac 5. This new employee is not only an alien (extranormal), but has replaced an incredibly good friend, Winn, with whom she was very close (saved lives multiple times with, provided emotional support, you know, the normal TV show hero stuff). Like Winn, Braniac is brilliant and kind, always willing and very able to…
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Decoding the Female Lung: Patricia Silveyra Researches How Air Quality Affects Us
Welcome back to the third installment of our newest blog series: the Unsung Women’s Project! We’ll be highlighting amazing women in STEM, sharing the stories of all of the incredible, meaningful things women have done in their STEM careers that haven’t gotten the recognition they deserve. Dr. Patricia Silveyra is an Associate Professor and Director of the Biobehavioral Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) School of Nursing. Her research program on sex specific mechanisms of lung inflammation is funded by NHLBI by K01 and R03 awards. Dr.
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Data Whisperer: Jessica Milli Uses Economics to Help Women
Welcome back to the latest of our newest blog series: the Unsung Women’s Project! We’ll be highlighting amazing women in STEM, by sharing the stories of all of the incredible, meaningful things women have done in their STEM careers that haven’t gotten the recognition they deserve. Jessica Milli is an economist and study director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, the leading think tank in the United States that focuses primarily on policy research through a gendered lens. Once referred to as a “wonk star,” Dr.
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Superhero Series: What It Means to Cover or Pass at Work
In part two of our Superhero Series, let’s examine the concepts of covering and passing. These two concepts come into play frequently in the land of superheroes, but have particularly important meaning when it comes to certain superhero stories. X-Men is probably best known for exploring these complexities. X-Men (the recent movie versions) is about many things, but one key aspect to the story is how mutants have to hide their abilities from ‘regular’ humans for fear of persecution. Mutants are humans who display no abilities at birth, and then have powers appear around the time of puberty.
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Immigrant, Inventor, Lifesaver: Rany Busold Talks Biofoam and More
Welcome back to the third installment of our newest blog series: the Unsung Women’s Project! We’ll be highlighting amazing women in STEM, sharing the stories of all of the incredible, meaningful things women have done in their STEM careers that haven’t gotten the recognition they deserve. Rany Huynh Busold is the Senior Director of Clinical & Regulatory Affairs and Research & Development at Transmural Systems in Andover, MA. She holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University, and has worked in the medical device field for 18 years developing breakthrough technology for unmet clinical needs.
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Drones that Stop Bullets: Leah La Salla Wants to Improve Policing
Welcome back to the second installment of our newest blog series: the Unsung Women’s Project! We’ll be highlighting amazing women in STEM, sharing the stories of all of the incredible, meaningful things women have done in their STEM careers that haven’t gotten the recognition they deserve. Leah La Salla is a self-taught, polyglot software architect of Sicilian-Irish origins. She spent much of her free time during her high school years working in her aviation engineer dad’s super-precision tool-and-die machine shop.
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Rethinking Thanksgiving
While for many people Thanksgiving is simply a time of food, family, and friends, we think it’s important to remember the true story of Thanksgiving. While many of us think about this day as a way to commemorate a positive relationship between the Pilgrims and Native Americans in the 1600s, the reality is significantly different. We’ve put together a few resources to help you learn more about the history behind this day and rethink the ways that you choose to commemorate it going forward.
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Talking Genetics and Authenticity with Janina Jeff
Welcome to our newest blog series: the Unsung Women’s Project! We’ll be highlighting amazing women in STEM, sharing the stories of all of the incredible, meaningful things women have done in their STEM careers that haven’t gotten the recognition they deserve. Dr. Janina M. Jeff is a Human Geneticist and the first African American to graduate with a PhD in Human Genetics from Vanderbilt University. She is currently a Senior Scientist at Illumina, a biotech company that creates technology for companies such as Ancestry.com and 23 & Me.