Staff Spotlight: Rachel Ware
This month we are delighted to share with you one of our Graduate Research Assistants (GRA) Rachel Ware! Rachel has been with CGEST for around two years and started as a Barrett Scholar Fellow. She recently graduated from ASU with a BS in Computer Science and is now starting a graduate program at ASU as well. Rachel has spent most of her time with the center assisting Dr. Nkumah with the CompuPower program collecting data, transcribing interviews and most recently assisted in providing instruction for a computer science camp.
Rachel has graciously agreed to share a little bit more about herself with all of us and we couldn't be more proud to have her on board the team!
Home town
Bay Area, California
Top three life highlights
Starting college.
Getting hired by Girls Who Code as a TA.
Completing my undergraduate thesis and capstone project.
What inspires you?
Music and the passion of other people to better the world.
Passions
Continuing to learn and supporting the creation of a more just world, especially through education and design/organization. Also, any type of art.
Suggested reading
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
What is something that you learned recently?
I learned how to teach and engage a group on Zoom.
What is the best thing about your job?
Knowing that CGEST serves an important purpose and that I can contribute to that and support such interesting research that means a lot and also teaches me so much.
What is one of your proudest moments at CGEST?
I think anytime I have been able to interact with students through CompuPower or AISL have been the moments I feel really proud of, and being trusted to teach this summer in the camps for AISL has been really great.
What has been the most impactful tech innovation you use in your everyday life?
I have to say the Internet because so many things I use technology for in my life are online.
I am committed to advancing equity for women of color in STEM because...
everyone deserves input into STEM fields and the world will be a better place because of it.
Rachel is all around a great scholar and her meticulous work has helped so many projects run smoothly and effortlessly these past two years. We are very lucky to have her stay on with our team as she works towards her next degree. We are very excited to see where she goes next!
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