Happy Pride Month! Before this month is over we at Square Root Academy want to highlight some LGBTQ+ S.T.E.A.M Innovators that have proudly trailblazed in the world of S.T.E.A.M! Swipe to learn more about these S.T.E.A.M Heroes!
1). X. Eyee, Product Manager and part of the Google Research Data & Media Understanding Team for Responsible AI. First learning to code while in juvenile detention she has also worked w/Microsoft. X.
2). Lauren Esposito, Arachnologist who studies spiders and related animals. She’s the only woman expert on scorpions in the world and is also the co-founder of ‘500 Queer Scientists’, a visibility campaign for LGBTQ+ people and allies working in S.T.E.A.M.
3). Phill Wilson, President/ CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, the only national HIV/AIDS organization focused exclusively on Black people and co-founder of the National Black Lesbian & Gay Leadership Forum.
4). Nergis Mavalvala, Part of team of scientists who first observed gravitational waves from the collis...
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