February  2024 

Appointed Co-Director of the National Data Science Alliance Research Affinity Cohort Program

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Program Chair for the Inaugural Black Issues in Computing Education (BICE) conference

 

January  2024 

Began Senior Research Scientist position at HCAI@Howard

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October  2023 

Panelist at the 2023 Connected Learning Summit, "What does impact Look like in your work?"

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Presenter Equity in Innovation Symposium with Google

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April 2023 

Selected for the Sloan Data Science Faculty Fellows Program

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Presenter at the Spelman Faculty Showcase during the Presidential Investiture Academic Symposium.

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February 2023 - Storyfile blogpost Returning to the Past: Black Futures Built on the Stories of Black History Makers

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March 2023 - Moderator at the Stanford Embedded Ethics Conference

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February 2023 - Storyfile blogpost Returning to the Past: Black Futures Built on the Stories of Black History Makers

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February 2023 - HBCU Game Jam Judge

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May 2022 - Fairware 22 panel on Beyond Algorithmic Fairness: Open Issues in Fair and Equitable Data and Technology.

 

April 2022  - Panel presentation at BlackComputeHer 2022

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March 2022 - Panel presentation on Responsible CS Curriculum at the 2022 SIGCSE Technical Symposium.

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March 2022 - Presented a position paper on Cultural Considerations in HRI at HRI'22 Robo-Identity 2 workshop.

 

December 2021 - Lanched the Advanced Computing for Social Change Community Development Faculty inaugural cohort.

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December 2021 - Responsible CS Module Evaluations are live.

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November 2021 - Featured in a Mozilla blogpost on Using Education and Intersectionality to Fight Bias.

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November 2021 - ACM ISS'21 10 year Impact Award for 2012 paper on touch and gesture research with adults and children.

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October 2021 - ACM Interactions article on Engaging Race and HCI.

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September 2021 - Began fellowship with XSEDE Advanced Computing for Social Change.

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September 2021 - Received the Spelman College Presidential Award for mentorship.