Wanted: Names of Top Women of Color in Engineering for Working List

Karen James (@kejames) has put together a working list of top women of color in biology.

Rachel McShane asked if she could do one for other STEM fields, and I volunteered to pull one together for Engineering.

Please Tweet or Leave a comment to add a name to any of these lists (or add a category, if I missed a discipline). Self-nominations welcome.

If you wish to be identified as a Woman of Color, please also let me know that.  Since the original list was intended to recognize women of color, I want to honor that intent in an appropriate and respectful way.

Top Women in Engineering

• Aerospace Engineers
• Nicole Chase, on Twitter @SpaceAgNicole, (self-nominated)
• Biomedical
• @Prinda (nominated by Cheng Lee)
• Chemical Engineers
• Kim Brooks, on Twitter @kbrooksfit, (self-nominated)
• Civil Engineers
• Katie Bates, on Twitter @kb8s (nominated by Cheng Lee)
• Hannah Farrant, on twitter @hannahfarrant (nominated by Katie Bates)
• Roma Agrawal, on Twitter @RomaTheEngineer (nominated by Katie Bates)
• Computer Engineers
• Tracy Chou (nominated by Kim Curry)
• Electrical Engineers
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• Environmental Engineers
• Carolyn Green (nominated by Rachel McShade)
• @gkygirlengineer (nominated by Cheng Lee)
• Laura Mixon, @MorganJLocke (self-nominated)
• Industrial Engineers
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• Materials Engineers
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• Mechanical Engineers
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• Software Engineers
• Joyce @joycehoUT (nominated by Cheng Lee)
• Renee @BecomingDataSci (nominated by Cheng Lee)
• Systems Engineers
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• Interdisciplinary Engineers
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St. Louis Movie Nights

Two of the major inflection points in my life, both happened in the greater St. Louis area.

I have written several times about the Space Shuttle flying through Scott AFB while we were stationed there in the early 1980s.

As a college student in the late 1990s, I was hired as a cooperative education student for a company in St. Louis.  I lived in an apartment in Hazelwood, perhaps 5 miles away from Ferguson, MO.  My roommate was a Mechanical Engineering student from Florida, studying at Tuskegee.  Yes, she is black.

We moved in, in January, and she didn't have a winter coat.  I taught her what I knew about getting through snow, ice, and winter.  She taught me more.

Owning My Privilege

If you are reading this, please go check out @gildedspine's tweets about the #yesallwomen hashtag today.  She is the one who started it all.  I knew, that evening, however given the hate and bullying she was receiving I withheld her name on my previous post.

As I read through her tweets, as I think about what has happened in Ferguson, MO this weekend, and I listen to the Twitter response... what all of my blog posts are coming to, both the "becoming an engineer" series in progress AND the "social justice background" posts, are about owning my privilege.

Because engineers do make a decent amount of money.  I do not own a yacht, nor any kind of boat.  I do, however, live in a comfortable house, I pay my bills, I have medical care, we keep food on the table, and we have a little bit for investing & discretionary spending.  All of that, is privilege.