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Today's blog post is inspired by all of the #BlackListCleared posts on my Twitter timeline. As we prepare for a new school year, America's teachers are crowd sourcing their classroom supplies by posting their wish lists on social media. So as a parent, a child of a retired kindergarten teacher, and engineering professor, not only do I support teachers but I also support students. So in the midst of doing that, I also have to go shop for my own kid's very detailed list of sup

The reason Diversity In STEM is so important is because I think about how far I came with no Black Engineering or Women Engineering role models. Even today, I can only name maybe ten high profile Black women engineering role models, let me try: Ayanna Howard, Mae Jemison, Gilda Barabino, Kimberly Bryant, Jeanette Epps, Mary Jackson, Aprille J. Ericsson-Jackson, Ursula Burns, Christine Darden, Yvonne Clark, and Paula Hammond. Whoo hoo! I made ten, eleven actually. Now I defini