The Web of Connection

One of the things I observed as an undergrad, was how the different groups of people that I met interacted with each other.  The ways in which the SCA crowd intersected with the RPG gaming crowd, and so on.  And each person also brought unique aspects to the community, as I also went to classes and did other things where most of my friends were not.

I started to see each activity or event as a node, and the people connected all the different nodes together, to form a web of community.

Question everything, including this

I've hit the point in both my "becoming an engineer" and "path to social justice concerns" stories that I can't avoid discussing my spirituality. I'm pondering a post about "the far side, where the fringes meet," but this will not be that post.

My parents were conservative, Catholic, Charismatics.  There's a lot to unpack from those three words.  One of the blogs that I subscribe to and periodically read, is Love, Joy, Feminism on Patheos.com.  Things were a little different in my family, where she was homeschooled by Evangelical Protestants, we went to Catholic schools and Catholic church... but that also is another post.

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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