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#WCW with Laura Fuentes-Dominguez
#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…
#TechTuesday with Reshma Saujani
#TechTuesday with Reshma Saujani 💻 Reshma Saujani is the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a non-profit working to support girls in technology to close the gender gap. Girls…
#MedicineMonday honoring Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865 – 1915)
#MedicineMonday honoring Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865 – 1915) 🏥🔬 Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American woman to become a doctor in the United States. Susan was born…
#TBT honoring Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865 – 1915)
#TBT honoring Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865 – 1915) 🏥🔬 Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American woman to become a doctor in the United States. Susan was born…
#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…
#TechTuesday – Erin Teague
#TechTuesday with Erin Teague 💻 Erin Teague is a software engineer who has led product teams at Twitter, Path, and Yahoo. At YouTube, Erin leads the team developing its virtual…
#MathMonday honoring Annie Easley (1933-2011)
#MathMonday honoring Annie Easley (1933-2011) 🔬 Annie Easley worked as a computer for NACA until it was abolished in 1958, becoming NASA, where Easley would develop the software for the Centaur…
#SustainabilitySaturday with Mary Robinson
#SustainabilitySaturday with Mary Robinson ♻️ Mary Robinson was the first female president of Ireland, a form UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and led her own initiative, the Mary Robinson Foundation—Climate…
#TBT honoring Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919-2004)
#TBT honoring Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919-2004) 👩🏾⚕️🔬 Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown was the first African American female surgeon in the South, the first single woman in Tennessee allowed to…
#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…
#TechTuesday with Audrey Tang
#TechTuesday with Audrey Tang 💻 Audrey Tang is a transgender software developer and self-described “civic hacker” who was appointed to Digital Minister by the Taiwanese government in 2016. Audrey is the…