Her Stem Story

Career transitions are tough especially when you are in research and a mom! Our guest today Adrianna Bankston has had her fair share of transitions. Some of them include career transition from the bench into policy, as well as her personal story of managing motherhood and a career in research. She advocates for junior scientists by working with "Future of Research". An organization that champions, engage and empower early career scientists with resources to help the scientific research endeavor. Listen now to this amazing STEM story. Links to connect with Adriana:   Future of Research   Personal Blog   Favorite book: https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537

Links:  *GetApp articles *Talk at Women Techmakers Montreal 2018 *Twitter profile In this episode, we are talking to Lauren Maffeo a Technology writer and a diversity & inclusion advocate. Lauren talks about her transition into the tech sector with a liberal arts background. She explains why she chose to earn a certificate in AI for Business Strategy from MIT Sloan. Aspects of how shame plays a role in diversity and inclusion in STEAM fields. Listen to Lauren's interesting STE"A"M story.   

Link: -About ChickTech -ChickTech locations -ChickTech blog -ChickTech Twitter -ChickTech Facebook -ChickTech LinkedIn   In this episode, our guest was a teen mom and despite all the hardships ended up getting a computer engineering degree. She went on to get her MBA and in 2012 Janice Levenhagen-Seeley founded ChickTech. ChickTech is a non-profit that advocates for gender equality through high school workshops, training, and conferences. It aims at engaging women of all ages in the technology industry while working to create a better technology culture for all. Listen to Janice's story to learn more about her challenging and powerful STEM story. 

Just like us Saqi Mehta shares stories of women who are reigning it in STEM. After spending 5 years in Silicon Valley leading the University Recruiting team at Square, Saqi realized the disparity between women and men in STEM, which led her to Co-Found ReigningIt (https://medium.com/@ReigningIt). A website and community platform which brings awareness to women in STEM through the power of community and narrative. ReigningIt has created a strong community of almost 5000 women in STEM and has shared more than 500 stories of incredible women in STEM. Listen now to Saqi's amazing STEM story.    Links:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/callmesaqi? Website: https://reigningit.wixsite.com/reigningit Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReigningIt/  

Today we are talking to JonnaGerken, President of Society of Women Engineers (SWE) 2018 and Program Chief Manufacturing Engineering (PCME) team within the Core Manufacturing Engineering organization at Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Jonna is finishing her term for the FY 2018. In this episode, she shares great advice for women, mothers, and young girls around the world. Jonna has achieved amazing things in her life including a BS in industrial engineering and an MBA in technology development from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. SWE has almost 40,000 members organization serves over 400 sections & groups around the world to encourage more women to enter and stay in engineering fields. Listen now to Jonna's incredible STEM story. Links:   Main SWE website SWENext Program, including SWE Clubs research.swe.org- research page (https://research.swe.org/category/swe-research/and click on Culture Study for the one I referenced.    

Links: Patreon Twitter  Instagram This episode is a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, & Mathematics) story of a fellow podcaster Sabrina Ricci, who hosts a podcast called "I Know Dino". Coming from a journalism & digital content background, Sabrina didn’t even think once before starting her podcast. She and her husband host this weekly show. They go to a lot of museums and conferences and get to meet amazing paleontologists, paleoartists, and other people who work with dinosaurs in some form. Sabrina is also the content program manager at Autodesk.” Let’s talk to Sabrina to learn more about her unique STEAM story.    

Links: The Mars Generation Twitter  AskAbby TEDx Talk Netflix Documentary     Since 8th grade, Abigail Harrison has worked on multiple projects to learn more about interplanetary science. She is known as Astronaut Abby by her huge social media following and by students around the world who want to follow in her footsteps. From being a Freshman in Astrobiology & Russian to being the head of the Chief Executive Board of her non-profit "THE MARS GENERATION" Abby has achieved a great amount of experience and respect in the world of Science Communication &  STEM advocacy. With all this exceptional work and an internship at NASA, she is clearly on her way to the red planet MARS! Listen to this episode to the incredible visionary Abigail Harrison & learn about her outstanding STEM story!

Links: https://www.facebook.com/sydney.danielle.351 https://twitter.com/s_flozia Sydney's TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/RwF_hv5qfYE   Sydney's current research endeavors    https://biointerface.ece.ncsu.edu/sensus.html   Today we are talking to Sydney Floryanzia, a Chemical Engineering freshman at NC State University. Her journey is peculiar, as it did not begin with math or science, but with Sydney’s love for music. In sixth grade, Sydney was finding a way to solve one of the National Academy of Engineering’s fourteen Grand Challenges of the 21st century; Reverse Engineering the Brain. Sydney’s story has been featured in a magazine, in the news, a TEDx talk, and in a Super Bowl commercial. She continues to inspire young people to seek the intersections between seemingly unrelated subjects and to combine their passions to create beautiful new ideas. Listen to Sydney's Musical STEM Story.

In this episode, we are talking to Kira Coley, Marine Biologist turned science writer and founder of “The Chatty Scientist” a science communication training and resource platform. It aims at breaking barriers in science communication by providing access to affordable interactive online training, and STEM events across UK. Kira also works as a lecturer in science communication and the senior editor for a marine science magazine ECO. Kira opens up about her struggle with dyslexia and how in spite of it she became a successful scientist & a science writer. Let’s Chat with the chatty scientist herself to know more about her interesting STEM story! Links: Kira Coley The Chatty Scientist  Twitter  Instagram The Girls In STEM Event  

Today we are talking to an American Zooarchaeologist, who moved halfway across the world to pursue her PhD in Archeology at the University of Bradford in UK. From switching from humanities to Science majors to dealing with mental health issues early on in her PhD Alex Fitzpatrick is an excellent example of how you can take your problems and make them into something wonderful, like she has done with her SciComm efforts, which include curating our #STEMSupport column, being a guest blogger at fem of stem blog, and running her own blog “Animal Archaeology” which has over 8 different writing series. Let’s talk to Alex about her unstoppable “STEM” story! Facebook www.facebook.com/animalarchaeology Twitter - www.twitter.com/ archaeologyfitzTwitter for Crastina

Today we are talking to a very "STEMSPIRING" young lady Laalitya Acharya, a current high school freshman whose goal is to girls to take up STEM all across the globe. Why? and How? were some of her favorite words growing up. Laalitya has identified the gap that young girls are faced with when trying to take up STEM, she wants to change how the next generation approaches these courses and make a difference! She was selected as a finalist for the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge 2017 and she creates educational STEM videos on YouTube. Listen to Laalitya's energetic and STEMSPRINING STEM Story. Links To Connect With Laalitya: Twitter: @laalityaacharya Youtube: Studying STEM  [caption id="attachment_884" align="alignleft" width="227"] STEM STAR Laalitya Aacharya[/caption]

Download Now In this episode, we are talking to an expert in women leadership development, Brigid Moynahan, the CEO of Next Level Leadership, INC., a training, and development organization based in NY. Brigid started the company in 1986 with a farsighted approach to create diverse leadership in fortune 500 companies. Over the last 25 years, she has created over 800corporate programs on mentoring, coaching, team building, diversity, and leadership. She has worked extensively with companies like JP Morgan & Chase, JOHNSON & JOHNSON & Rutgers to name a few. She utilizes a very innovative “ACTING FOR LEADERSHIP PROGRAM” to create compelling leadership presence.  Brigid knows everything there is to women’s leadership development and how you can achieve the most out of your career whether you work for big corporations or startups. Listen on to know more about how you can take your career to THE NEXT LEVEL! Brigid's Favorite Book: The Female Advantage Connect with Brigid's Leadership company by followi

Download Now In this episode, we are talking to a mom that wants to change the future of moms around the world. Coding is the universal language that we all should know. We aren’t very far from the day when everything will be automated in some way or another. Erica Peterson is a mother of two, entrepreneur, and TEDx speaker living in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the Founder & CEO of Moms Can: Code and was recently chosen as the 1st place winner of the 2017 Invest in Her Pitch competition. Within six months of launching, Moms can code, Erica is selected to pitch at the South by Southwest's Accelerator Pitch Event in Austin. She’s one of 50 finalists from around the country. She is very passionate about exposing women and children to STEM. Listen on to learn the struggles mom's face daily to start and run a successful business. Learn how being a mom doesn't change your opportunities to learn and contribute.   Listen to this incredible story of perseverance, creativity and sheer hard work which will make you belie

In today's DiveIn Black History Month special episode we are talking to Stephanie Espy the author of "STEM GEMS” a powerful book that portrays 44 Women in STEM role models to give young girls and boys the very valuable gift of role models. She is the CEO of MathSP, the only STEM-focused academic coaching company in the state of Georgia. She was awarded the prestigious PORSCHE Driving force award, she was featured in Huffington Post and has a BS in chemical engineering from MIT, MS in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley and MBA from Emory University. Listen to Stephanie's amazing STEM story to find out how she plans to create more GEMS in STEM! Links: www.mydivein.com Web: www.STEMGemsBook.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/Stephanie Espy Facebook: www.facebook.com/STEMGemsBook Twitter: www.twitter.com/STEMGemsBook

In this 2nd episode of Black History Month Special, we are talking to Erica Wagner she’s joining us all the way from Colorado! She is an inspiring Teenpreneur who has established her YouTube channel “SCIENCE HER WAY" that focuses on Educational STEAM products, games, and projects. Erica loves to code and aspires to be a computer engineer and digital designer. She is young but has big dreams of changing the world for girls of color in STEM! Let’s talk to the teenpreneur, You tuber, and DREAMER, THE AMAZING ERICA WAGNER! Links: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/scienceherway Twitter: @ScienceHerWay Website: www.scienceherway.com GoFundMe:  https://www.gofundme.com/yt-steam-channel-minority-girls.      

In this episode, we are talking to Kiwoba Allaire, the CEO & Founder of  & Camille Eddie an engineering student & Board Member of “GIRL STEM STARS”. A nonprofit based in the Silicon Valley, that’s dedicated to helping girls of color from underserved communities to improve their lives by providing them with powerful trips like visiting NASA Ames Research center & experiences in the field of STEM. Listen on to learn more about their inspiring journey & why we need more GIRL STEM STARS!!    Links: DiveIN: http://www.mydivein.com http://www.girlstemstars.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOgvYIG9v4I   Contibute:   https://www.givingloop.org/girlstemstars  

Today we are talking to a SOLAR SCIENTIST, physicist  Dr. Stephanie Yardley, who studies the eruption of the Sun's magnetic field that can lead to the spectacular displays of the aurora but can also severely damage our technological systems on Earth. She is joining us all the way from Scotland. Listen to this story of Stephanie and how she’s REACHING FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT STAR…..SUN!    You can follow her on Twitter @slyardley.

In today's DiveIn special episode, we are talking to the amazing Melissa Cristina Márquez. She is a Latina marine biologist and conservationist in Sydney, Australia. Mellisa is actively engaged in research, exploration, communication, and application of scientific knowledge related to the conservation of marine ecosystems. She studies sharks and their relatives and shares passionately about them through her The Fins United Initiative (TFUI; www.finsunited.co.nz). Melissa has over 6000 followers on Twitter, multiple blog posts, a TED-X talk and she is a strong advocate for diversity for women in STEM especially LATINA women in STEM.Listen on to learn more about this UNSTOPPABLE SHARK Scientist.   Links: DiveIn Website TFUI Website Facebook Twitter Instagram TEDx talk Personal website 

In this episode, we are talking to Jackie Giovanniello, a Ph.D. student in Neuroscience at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in NY. She works on understanding how neural circuits are disrupted in autism. She is also the Co-Founder of the Women in Science & Engineering Initiative (WiSE) at CSHL. Learn how she got over challenges and succeeded in securing 30,000 dollars in funding with over 100 members. Jackie shares her struggles, strengths, and ideas to get more women to wear & retain the pristine white lab coats! Links: CSHL WISE www.500womenscientists.org Twitter: @CSHL_WISE

In this episode, we are talking to Elizabeth Laine, Director of Members & Marketing, at Athena in San Diego, California. San Diego magazine nominated Elizabeth for the WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2017. She oversees the FORUMS FOR Executive Women that has 500 women members. Elizabeth has collaborated with top STEM organizations like Qualcomm, Sony, and Deloitte for women’s executive development. Listen on to find out how you can get that next promotion on your STEM Journey! LINKS: http://www.athenasd.org Book Recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322   *This is not a paid recommendation.