October 3, 2023
Dr. Angela Stewart (Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems; Research Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center) received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her project “Collaborative Research: Black Girls as Creators: an intersectional learning ecosystem toward gendered racial equity in Artificial Intelligence education.”
This project will work with Black girls, aged 9-14, to expand the range of perspectives and voices that are a part of AI technology through after school and summer camps. In these camps, Black girls will work together to design new AI projects and have positive social impact on their community.
Stewart’s project is funded through the NSF’s Racial Equity in STEM Education activity (EDU Racial Equity), which supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce.
Stewart is the project’s Principal Investigator (PI), with Tany Haynes (Afterschool Coordinator, Assemble) as the project’s community partner. The project has been awarded $804,650.00, with more than $1.2 million in funds total intended over the course of a five-year period.
Please join us in congratulating Stewart on this achievement and read more about the project here.