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The Importance of Community for Women in Tech
By: Jayashree Iyer The technology sector has a history of lacking in gender diversity, with only 25% of its workforce being women. Even...

CGEST Staff
Dec 31, 20213 min read


Mentoring and the STEM Gender Gap
By: Ali Roberts The dominant narrative has been that the gender gap in technology career fields has been slowly closing over the years,...

CGEST Staff
Sep 22, 20213 min read

Unity Through Robotics: Afghan Girls Robotics Team
By Christine Leavitt Violence and tragedy in Afghanistan have shaken the world during these last few weeks as the Taliban has returned to...

CGEST Staff
Aug 31, 20212 min read

Wikipedia and The Outsider Within
ASU’s Dr. Tracy Perkins will be presenting research on Wikipedia’s racialized knowledge politics at the American Sociological...
Guest Blogger
Aug 5, 20213 min read

Call for Applications! Summer Leadership Academy
The Leadership Academy for CS and Engineering Undergraduates - Thriving in Internships and Early Careers is currently looking for...
CGEST Staff
May 24, 20212 min read


Workplace Bias and Women of Color in Computing
Contributing guest blog post by Rachel Maas At the Center for WorkLife Law, we had the opportunity as part of WoCCC to study bias...
Guest Blogger
Mar 2, 20213 min read


Moving While Black
Institutions’ responses to Black Lives Matter include increasing the number of African American employees in their spaces among other...
Dr. Kimberly Scott
Feb 22, 20213 min read


The Hill We Climb
That is the name of the poem that the nation's first Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman recited at the inauguration of President Joe Biden...
CGEST Staff
Jan 26, 20211 min read


Forward Thinking for Our Girls
A few days after the highly publicized attack on the U.S. Capitol, education organizations thoughtfully and rapidly provided lists for...
Dr. Kimberly Scott
Jan 25, 20213 min read


Intersectionality in STEM
Over the past year, there have been lots of discussions about intersectionality. Intersectionality means that we are making sure we...
Dr. Kimberly Scott
Jun 27, 20192 min read

Capturing Collaboration Networks of Broadening Participation Researchers
Postdoctoral researcher Steve Elliott presented results from CGEST research at two scholarly conferences in May. The results stem from a...
Dr. Steve Elliot
Jun 25, 20193 min read


Event Review: Special Preconference for Women of Color in Computing Research Collaborative
On October 4, 2018, a special preconference was held prior to the Women of Color STEM Entrepreneurship Conference at ASU Law School in...
CGEST Staff
Oct 10, 20181 min read


Cultivating a Fascination for a Future in STEM: Encouraging Women & Diversity
On June 19th, Dr. Kimberly Scott and Matthew Ruf of the CGEST team attended the “Cultivating a Fascination for a Future in STEM:...
CGEST Staff
Aug 16, 20183 min read
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