Location: United Kingdom
Maria is a professor at the University of Nottingham, manager of the Drug Discovery Programme and Chair of the BAME Staff Network. She is an advisor for Black Women in Science, a network to support black women in science.
You can follow her work here:
Twitter: @guta1610
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mariaaugustaarruda
Website: bwisnetwork.co.uk
Spotlight on… Dr Maria Augusta Arruda, Black Women in Science, 14 October 2019
Location: South Asia
Lotus STEMM is a grassroots community for South Asian women which works to increase the visibility of and inspire South Asian girls and women in STEM. They provide resources for parents and teachers as well as students, and workshops and mentoring to help women develop skills. They run competitions, such as the recent Degrees of Success video contest, and carry out research on issues affecting women. In 2020, they were awarded The STEM Squad Cross-Pollination Grant for their mentorship program.
You can follow their work here:
Twitter: @Lotus_STEMM
Facebook: facebook.com/Lotus-STEMM
Instagram: @lotusstemm
YouTube: Lotus STEMM
Website: lotusstemm.org
Location: United Kingdom
Allison is a Teaching Fellow and Programme Director for the Science Foundation Year at Keele University, where she researches machine learning for disease prediction, and gender and computing. She co-founded Women Leading in AI in 2018, is an alumnus of the Jo Cox Women in Leadership Programme and is a panel member for the Artificial Intelligence Health and Care Award. Allison also spoke at our International Women’s Day event in 2019 ‘IWD: Shifting the balance in STEM‘.
You can follow her work here:
Twitter: @AllisonCGardner & @WLinAI
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dr-allison-gardner
Website: womenleadinginai.org
Location: Nigeria
Women In STEM Brainiacs is a not-for-profit initiative from Brainiacs STEM & Robotics and encourages girls and women in STEM. They run a mentoring scheme, STEM competitions and events, internships and are setting up STEM networks in schools.
You can follow their work here:
Twitter: @WinStemBrainiac
YouTube: Brainiacs STEM & Robotics
LinkedIn: Brainiacs STEM and Robotics
Instagram: brainiacs_ng
Website: brainiacs.com.ng
Location: South Africa
Naadiya is an entrepreneur and engineer who co-founded WomHub, an incubator for female-led STEM businesses, and is also a co-founder of WomEng. She was listed as one of the 20 Youngest Power Women In Africa 2014, was a Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards Finalist in 2017 and was one of 12 African leaders accepted onto the Facebook Community Accelerator this year.
You can follow her work here:
Twitter: @NaadiyaMoosajee
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/naadiya-moosajee-a8800810
Website: womeng.org