Women’s History Month 2023 | Diversity and Inclusion

Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers (SHPE) Latinas in STEM Networking Brunch

Friday, March 3rd, 2023 @11:30 am - 1 pm ET
Central King Building Agile Strategy Lab

This networking brunch is to celebrate women in STEM during Women's History Month. It will be a great opportunity to learn about the stories of hardworking female professionals and faculty, which could potentially be a motivation for our current female students in STEM.

National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) "Women in Architecture"

Tuesday, March 7th, 2023 | 4 - 5:30 pm ET
Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) 3rd Floor, Elly's Loft

Join NOMAS with special guest Melissa Nieves from NOMA to discuss our second chit chat topic of women in architecture. Located in Elly's Loft, Melissa will discuss her experiences in the past as only 23% of women are architects!

Women in Computing Society (WiCS) "International Women's Day"

Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 | 2:30 - 4 pm ET
Central King Building 320

We will be making friendship bracelets in honor of Women's History Month!

Center for Women's Leadership (CWL) & The Murray Center for Women in Technology (MCWT) "CWL Scholarship Fundraising Brownbag Lunch"

Thursday, March 9th, 2023 | 12 - 1:30 pm ET
Campus Center Atrium

Speaker: Dr. Omowunmi "Wunmi" Sadik, Distinguished Professor & Chair, Chemistry & Environmental Science. "Narrowing the gap for women in STEM"

RSVP here

Society of Women Engineers (SWE) "Mentoring Night"

Thursday, March 9th, 2023 | 6 - 9 pm ET
Eberhardt Hall 112

Network with peers and professionals at our annual Mentoring Night! Please RSVP if you plan on attending.

Office of Student Life "Women's History Month Panel"

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 | 2:30 - 4 pm ET
Central King Building 303

The Office of Student Life invites you to join us in celebrating Women's History Month with a discussion of “Narratives on Identity, Community, and Activism” on Wednesday, March 22nd at 2:30 pm ET. The virtual panel will be moderated by Chris Won, Associate Director for Diversity & Inclusion. Feel free to join us via Zoom with live captioning provided, or join us in person at the Central King Building 303, with refreshments provided. The panel will feature four speakers of various backgrounds who are committed to equity and inclusion for women and other historically marginalized populations. They will share their personal stories, perspectives on identity, and knowledge of feminist-futurisms in the S.T.E.M. field. Full bios and event registration can be found below.

The panelists are as follows:

Dona Sarkar (she/her), Director of Technology, Microsoft Accessibility; Owner/Chief Creative Officer, Prima Dona; International Keynote Speaker/Corporate Shenanigans
Ginger Chien (she/her), MS Electrical Engineering, Device Architect, AT&T; DEI&B/LGBTQ+ speaker, storyteller, and 80’s cover band musician
Lisa Mae Brunson (she/her), Founder and Chief Visionary, Wonder Women Tech; Chair, Commission for Technology and Innovation for the City of Long Beach
Rosario (Rose) Robinson (she/her), MBA, Chief Technology Officer, Phoenix Xcel; Founder and Chair, Industry Advisory Board, Savannah State University Computer Science Department

Full bios can be found: here

Zoom link: here

Graduate Society of Women Engineers (GSWE) & Graduates for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (GIDE) "Cracking the Code: Innovation for Gender Equal Future"

Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 | 4 - 6 pm ET
Location TBD

Girl Up "Women's History Month Trivia Table"

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 | 2:30 - 6 pm ET
Campus Center Lobby

Career Development Services (CDS) "NJIT Women in STEM: Networking and Alumnae Panel"

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 | 6 - 8 pm ET
Eberhardt Hall 112

RSVP on Handshake! The panel discussion will be moderated by Marjorie Perry '05.

The panelists will be Erica A. Feldman, '10, '11, Huanying (Helen) Gu, '99, Katy Nyby, '18, Ayushi Sangoi, '20 and Ivana Seric, '11, '17. The panelists will discuss career development in their respective fields. After the discussion, there will be networking and food.

All are welcome to join in this event!

MCWT "2023 Women Designing the Future Conference -- "Artificial Intelligence / Real Human Lives: making technology work for all of us"

Friday, March 31st, 2023 | 8:30 am - 3 pm ET
Campus Center Ballroom

WHAT IS THIS CONFERENCE ABOUT? Conference speakers from many disciplines will drill below the surface of the current hype about an imminent AI takeover and highlight genuine ethical concerns about fairness, accountability, and transparency in data science practice —exploring the ways in which we can prevent advances in A.I. from exacerbating existing systemic discrimination and social injustice.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND? To learn from experts how the power of Artificial Intelligence silently shapes your life right now--and how it will reshape the future world around the globe. You'll have an opportunity to interact personally with innovative scientists and social activists who are meeting that challenge, creating new ways to leverage the power of AI for social good. (ADHC students also get colloquium credit.)

WHAT CAN YOU DO AT THE CONFERENCE BESIDES LISTEN? You can speak—ask questions, get support for your projects and ideas. You can also visit the conference’s VR/AI arcade. Students who attend the morning sessions will have a chance later in the day to win high-tech gear. There's free breakfast (8:30 am). Free lunch. And as NJIT community members, you're invited to attend for free--as long as you pre-register at https://WDF31.eventbrite.com

SPEAKERS:

JULIA STOYANOVICH, Ph.D., is Institute Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Associate Professor of Data Science, Director of the Center for Responsible AI, and member of the Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at New York University. Julia’s goal is to make “Responsible AI” synonymous with “AI.” Her research interests include AI ethics and legal compliance, data management and AI systems, and computational social choice. She is engaged in technology regulation in the US and internationally, having served on the New York City Automated Decision Systems Task Force, by mayoral appointment, among other roles. She is also co-author of “Data, Responsibly,” an award-winning comic book series for data science practitioners and enthusiasts, and “We are AI,” a comic book series for the general audience.

PATRICIA ORDÓÑEZ, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Her research interests include applying machine learning, data mining, and visualization to large repositories of clinical and biological data, creating a voice programming language (assistive technology), and advocating and working towards high-quality computer and data science education for all. She is the recipient of a Great Minds in STEM 2021 HENAAC Award in Education and the 2021 AccessComputing Building Capacity Award.

SENJUTI BASU ROY, Ph.D., is the Panasonic Chair in Sustainability and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her research focus lies on the intersection of data management, data exploration, and AI, especially enabling human-AI teaming in scale. Senjuti has published more than 80 research papers in high impact data management and data mining conferences and journals. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, a PECASE nominee, and one of the 100 invited early career engineers to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

REBECCA BROWN is Director of Policy at the Innocence Project where she leads the effort to prevent and reveal wrongful convictions and assure compensation for the wrongfully convicted upon release from prison. She has also served as a Policy Analyst for the Mayor's Office in New York City and a Senior Planner at Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES), where she conducted research, evaluation, and planning work around its alternative to incarceration programs.

SARAH CHU is Senior Advisor on Forensic Science Policy at the Innocence Project where she focuses on improving the valid, reliable, just, and equitable application of forensic science and police investigative technologies. She is currently a doctoral student in the Criminal Justice program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center where her research focuses on the oversight and critical evaluation of the role of science and technology throughout the criminal legal system.

RENÉE CUMMINGS is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethicist and Professor of Practice in the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia (UVA) where she serves as the university’s first Data Activist in Residence. Her research focuses on data justice, data trauma, algorithmic policing, surveillance technology, and AI for criminal justice reform, including using data to enhance police accountability and transparency and to improve police practices, fairness, and decision-making accuracy through community engagement and public interest technology.

JUNGWON KIM is an established leader for climate, sustainability, and human rights. For many years, she led the Rainforest Alliance storytelling team where she helped to develop the organization’s advocacy strategy. Previously, she served as manager of the editorial team at Amnesty International USA.

REBECCA HUI is the founder and CEO of the Roots Studio, a collective of artists, indigenous leaders, and technologists “reimagining cultural preservation onto new formats through equitable and sustainable 2-way bridges.” She uses data-driven and grassroots approaches to support communities facing climate change, including using satellite mapping data to equip rural communities to be more disaster resilient and a project that explored the impact of AI powered maps for coral reef conservation. She has also published a children's book on social entrepreneurship, "It's Our Business to Make a Better World.”