Coding Black Females

Location: United Kingdom

Coding Black Females is a non-profit founded in 2017 that provides networking and development to Black female developers in a supportive community. They hold meetups and offer discounts and other opportunities to their members, and also run a jobs board. This year, they launched an initiative with Nivo Enterprise called Black Codher, a part-time coding bootcamp for unemployed black women.

You can follow their work here:

Twitter: @codingblackfems
Facebook: facebook.com/codingblackfemales
Instagram: codingblackfemales
YouTube: Coding Black Females
LinkedIn: Coding Black Females
Website: codingblackfemales.com

Further reading

• Coding Black Females: Our Story, Charlene Hunter, Medium, 11 April 2019
• Initiative to boost numbers of black women in tech launched, The Voice, 9 May 2020
• The black women in tech coding the future (video), Catherine Mackie, BBC News, 15 August 2020
• Meet Charlene Hunter: Founder of Coding Black Females, She Can Code, 5 October 2020

Lourdes Beatriz Cajica Maceda

Location: Mexico

Lourdes is a DSC Lead for Google Developers, and the co-founder and president of Women + Technology, a group to encourage girls to study STEM in the Mexican city of Puebla. She was a teaching assistant for Beautiful Patterns, a project from MIT to empower girls in STEM.

You can follow her work here:

Twitter: @WomenTechnolog1
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lourdes-cajica
GitHub: women-tech.github.io/womentech

Mujeres con ciencia

Location: Spain

Mujeres con ciencia is a website featuring articles, events and interviews with and about women in science, created by the “Chair of Scientific Culture” of the University of the Basque Country, as part of their mission to promote women in science. It is edited by Marta Macho Stadler, a Basque mathematician, who won the Emakunde Equality Prize for her work.

You can follow their work here:

Twitter: @mujerconciencia
Facebook: facebook.com/mujerescciencia
Website: mujeresconciencia.com

Further reading

• Marta Macho: “Women with science ‘gives visibility to all scientists who are unknown and should be models and references for all”, Carmen Santana, 20 September 2017
• Women with Science, by Anna María Mellado García, Anna María Mellado García, CCOO, 29 November 2017
• ‘Women with science’ and ‘Inspira’, two projects for visibility (original in Spanish), El Diario Vasco, 7 February 2018
• Scientific communication in times of COVID-19 and Women with science (podcast, original in Spanish), La Mecanica Del Caracol, 8 May 2020

Dr Jean Fan

Location: United States

Jean Fan is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, who uses machine learning to analyse medical data. She was a co-chair of the Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering student group and was a mentor at Science Club for Girls. She is the founder and director of CuSTEMized, a personalised story book to encourage young girls into STEM, which has provided over 20,000 free eBooks. In 2019, she won the Nature Research Award for Inspiring Science for her research and her efforts promoting STEM.

You can follow her work here:

Twitter: @JEFworks
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeanfan
GitHub: JEFworks
Website: jef.works

Further reading

• Seeing is Believing: CuSTEMized Dreams Create Real Heroes, Lauren Koenig, The Scientista Foundation, 6 June 2016
• Award recognizes efforts to inspire girls to pursue science careers, Amber Dance, Nature, 17 October 2019

Bilim Kadınları

Location: Turkey

Bilim Kadınları started with a single tweet asking for more information about Turkish women of science. A group was formed and they aim to increase the visibility of Turkish female scientists through interviews and articles on their Medium blog. They also manage an active list of Turkish women in STEM, and have created a poster set of 5 Turkish women in science.

You can follow their work here:

Twitter: @Bilimkadinlari
Facebook: facebook.com/Bilimkadinlari
Website: medium.com/bilim-kadınları

Further reading

• All in Turkey Women in Science Meets in single blog (original in Turkish), Derya Meryem, Sivil Sayfalar, 16 April 2019