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Introducing the STEMpowered Women Podcast!

Introducing the STEMpowered Women podcast! Tune in each week to hear stories from boss women sharing inspiration, career advice, health tips, and serving realness that’ll prepare you to take on

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How to Get the Career You Deserve

“… I made the shift from working hard to working smart.” As Black Americans we’re conditioned to believe that we have to work twice as hard to earn the same

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Happy International Women’s Day!!

Happy International Women’s Day to all the beautiful, smart, amazing women making an impact in their field, in other’s lives, and beyond! I made this Black women in STEM collage

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What I Learned at Blavity’s AfroTech

Recently, I traveled to San Francisco for Blavity’s 3rd-annual AfroTech conference. It’s a highly anticipated weekend-long event filled with techies, aspiring entrepreneurs, and Black excellence. I didn’t go there with

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SIS Spotlight: Arlyne Simon

Meet Dr. Arlyne Simon! Arlyne is a biomedical engineer, inventor, author, and entrepreneur with three medical device patents. In 2012, she invented a blood test that detects when cancer patients

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STEMPowered Women You Should Know: Corlis Murray

Meet Corlis Murray, the Senior Vice President of Quality, Regulatory, and Engineering Services at Abbott Labs. Throughout her almost 30-year career she has been an advocate for increasing diversity in

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SIS Spotlight: Billye Boddie

Meet Billye Boddie! Billye is a Telecommunications Engineer striving to make an impact in her field and beyond. At the beginning of her career, she spent many late nights teaching

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Little Black Dress Night 2018 Highlights

 Chicago Tech Academy High School ended May by hosting its highly anticipated 4th Annual Little Black Dress Night. Women and men from across the city came to support the

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Sistas on YouTube!

Hey Sistas! We’re on YouTube! Make sure you subscribe to our new YouTube channel where you can find interviews, SIS Chats, and insiders from Sistas all over! Watch the video

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MOMpreneur Survival Tips

There are many challenges that come along with entrepreneurship. Mix that with five children, and you get a whole new set of obstacles thrown in your way. You’re focused on

SIS Spotlight: Adrianne Wheeler

Meet Adrianne Wheeler! Adrianne is a STEM educator, who graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering. She received her Masters of

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Am I Qualified?: Overcoming Self-Doubt

As you begin your career, you are metaphorically adding paint strokes to the empty canvas that is adulthood. The brush is in your hand and your decisions are the different

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Welcome to Sistas in STEM

Hello Everyone! Welcome to the Sistas in STEM website!   Sistas in STEM (SIS) was started by a few friends as an organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign