Dr Holly Jones

Location: United States

Holly is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy at Northern Illinois University, who writes about the unique challenges facing women and non-binary people doing field work.

You can follow her work here:

Twitter: @DocHPJones
Blog: fieldsecrets.com
Website: hjones82.wixsite.com/website

Further reading

• Meet Dr. Holly Jones and learn about her journey as a woman in STEM!, The Female Scientist, 8 May 2017
• Journey of a Woman in STEM, Holly Jones, Island Conservation, 10 May 2017
• Reintroducing Bison to the Tall Grass Prairie with Holly Jones (podcast), From the Field, 22 April 2019

Codette

Location: Romania

Codette is a community with over 900 members, who promote diversity through events, hackathons, summer labs and coding workshops for women in tech. They also run a mentoring program, a pre-accelerator for tech startups and meetups with entrepreneurs.

You can follow their work here:

Twitter: @codettero
Facebook: facebook.com/codette.ro
Instagram: @codettero
YouTube: codette
GitHub: Codette
Website: codette.ro

Further reading

• Silvia Stegaru, co-founder of Codette: I recommend pre-acceleration programs to those who are thinking of doing their own business (original in Romanian), Expose

Melissa Sariffodeen

Location: Canada

Melissa is the co-founder and CEO of Canada Learning Code, launched in 2011 as Ladies Learning Code to champion digital literacy education, especially for women and young people. They have helped over 600,000 people across the country in 10,500 educational events, and received $8 million in funding from the Canadian government to provide more education in schools. Melissa is a judge of Inspiring Fifty Canada, and was a 2017 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Social Change Award Winner.

You can follow her work here:

Twitter: @melsariffodeen
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/melissasariffodeen
Medium: @melsariffodeen
Website: canadalearningcode.ca

Further reading

• Melissa Sariffodeen, Amandah Wood, Ways We Work
• The Kids Will Be Alright (video), TEDx Talks, 18 January 2017
• Inside Canada’s first coding truck, bringing digital literacy to communities across Ontario, Allyson Aritcheta, This Magazine, 20 November 2017
• Leading Ladies: How Melissa Sariffodeen of Ladies Learning Code is leveling the programming field for women, Women of Influence, 21 August 2018
• Melissa Sariffodeen: Blazing a digital literacy trail for girls and women, Nathaniel Neil Whelan, Ingenium, 21 May 2019

Women in Technology Uganda

Location: Uganda

Women in Technology Uganda has created innovation and incubation hubs to enable women to start their own businesses in tech, with 78% of their alumni employed. They have also partnered with a variety of organisations to provide coding clubs and workshops for girls.

You can follow their work here:

Twitter: @wituganda
Facebook: facebook.com/witug
Instagram: @witug
Website: witu.org

Further reading

• Interview of Barbara Birungi, Susan Schneegans and Nicole Webley, A World of Science, April 2013
• Teaching Ugandan Girls to Code to Keep Them in School, Grainne Harrington, The New Humanitarian, 4 May 2017
• Women In Technology Uganda Giving Hope to School Drop Outs, Digest Africa, 8 August 2017
• Preparing Youth for Employment with Women in Technology Uganda, Team4Tech, 9 September 2020

Mónica Feliú-Mójer

Location: Puerto Rico/ United States

Mónica is the Director of Communications and Science Outreach for CienciaPR and Associate Director of Diversity and Communication Training for iBiology, with a background in neurobiology, who works to make science more equitable and inclusive. She was the producer of a series of short films about scientists of colour who have succeeded in science despite their background, Background to Breakthrough, and during Covid-19, has been responsible for leading a network of experts that have produced 70 articles about the disease in the Spanish language.

Twitter: @moefeliu
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/monicafeliumojer
ResearchGate: Mónica Feliú-Mójer
Website: monicafeliu.me

Further reading

• With a love of science and stories, Mónica Feliú-Mojer carved out a path with plenty of both, iBiology
• Meet the woman making science culturally relevant in the U.S., Jose Fermoso, HipGive, 9 December 2016
• Rethinking the Narrative of Diversity in Science, Mónica I. Feliú-Mójer, Nina Griffin and Elliot Kirschner, Scientific American, 7 May 2018
• Episode # 42: Science as an instrument of empowerment (podcast, original in Spanish), with Mónica Feliú-Mojer, Torres Gotay Entrevista, 29 January 2019
• Scientist Mónica Feliú-Mójer’s Career is Making Science More Equitable, Inclusive, Emileigh Clare, AAAS, 26 April 2019
• Puerto Ricans Are At Risk From The Coronavirus And A Lack Of Information (podcast), NPR, 7 April 2020