I am passionate about promoting equity in computer science. To learn about the topic, I highly recommend Jane Margolis' Stuck In The Shallow End and Unlocking The Clubhouse.

Here's how I'm trying to help:

• I worked with Dr. Valerie Barr, Mount Holyoke's computer science chair, on a research project that recalculated gender proportions in college computing education. You can read the paper here.
• I mentor introductory computer science students through Mount Holyoke's MaGE program. I've also worked as a teaching assistant in three intro courses.
• I believe an important way to equalize undergrad CS is providing opportunities to learn high-level skills. I volunteered to design and teach department-wide workshops on debugging and problem solving. I also co-created a coding interview prep workshop and ran a semester-long interview study group.
• In my sophomore year, I was the chair of Mount Holyoke's annual Girls in Technology conference. GIT is an annual one-day event for local high schoolers to learn about coding and entrepreneurship.
• In junior year, I led a team of non-coders that won Sister Hacks, a hackathon for the Seven Sisters colleges. We prototyped a website to teach coding by connecting concepts across various levels of abstraction.