Women of Color in Computing Research Collaborative Part II

As a follow up in our Women of Color in Computing Research Collaborative series the second fellow in the program is Maria (Mia) Ong, Ph.d. She is a Senior Research Scientist and Evaluator at TERC, a STEM education research organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is also the Founder and Director of Project SEED (Science and Engineering Equity and Diversity), a social justice collaborative affiliated with The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. For nearly twenty years, she has conducted empirical research focusing on women of color in higher education and careers in STEM and has led evaluation of several STEM diversity/inclusion programs. Dr. Ong’s work has appeared in reports to U.S. Congress and to the U.S. Supreme Court and in journals such as Social Problems and Harvard Educational Review, and she was an invited speaker at the 2016 White House meeting on inclusive education in STEM. Between 1996 and 2000, she directed an undergraduate physics program for minorities and women at U.C. Berkeley; for this work, she was a co-recipient of a U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.

Dr. Ong’s contribution to the collaboration is “Strategies for Persistence of Native American Women in Computing and Technology Higher Education: Two Case Studies,” will re-visit a subset of the CBDB dataset, including interview transcripts and extant documents, to develop two case studies on strategies for persistence of Native American women in computing and technology higher education.

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