Panel will De-Code the Gender Divide

While opportunities in the STEM field rapidly increase, the entire field remains unbalanced when it comes to gender diversity. Learn about the causes and consequences of the gender gap within the technology sector, how it has shaped the experiences of female entrepreneurs, and most importantly, what corrective actions organizations are taking to close the gap. Join us for an unprecedented panel event:

Standard Chartered Presents: Decoding the Gender Divide

ft. Darlene Gillard (digitalundivided), Leah Gilliam (Girls Who Code),

Tashay Green (ScriptED), Calena Jamieson (Black Girls Code), and Sabriya Stukes (ConnectWithSTEM)

moderated by Bea Arthur (InYourCorner)

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Leah Gilliam is the VP of Education, Strategy & Innovation at Girls Who Code. In her almost twenty years in the field, Gilliam has channeled her life-long fascination with systems and how things work into a diverse career at the intersection of learning and technology. Gilliam has consistently focused on issues of equity, opportunity, and participation€”whether launching a game-design laboratory in a NYC public school, lecturing on art and technology as a tenured professor at Bard College, or helping to embed and spread new tools and practices at Mozilla Foundation. She credits her socially engaged journalist mother and her avant-garde painter father with her early introduction to political thought and creativity.

Darlene Gillard is one of the founding members, a Partner and the Partnership Director, Community & Events, digitalundivided (DID) a company that invests in the success of Black and Latina women tech Founders by providing them with the tools to build and scale high growth companies. At DID, Darlene leads all community partnerships, press relations, special projects and events; and was the force behind the organizations signature program, #FOCUS100. Darlene has more than 20 years of diversified experience managing large-scale projects for brands like eBay, BlogHer, and the International Downtown Association. As a special projects manager and senior edior at Essence Magazine, Darlene oversaw and participated in the development of key ventures and events for the Time, Inc.-owned brand including the Essence Music Festival. She has held editorial and leadership positions at several  women-focused media companies, such as Womens Wear Daily, W, and Elle Magazine and is the founder of Gillard Jones Agency, an event-planning, management and consulting firm.

Calena Jamieson is the East Coast Program Manager for Black Girls CODE, a nonprofit working to increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. Prior to joining the Black Girls CODE team, she served as a lead volunteer for their New York City chapter.

Tashay Green is a Program Manager at ScriptEd. After graduating from Howard University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, Tashay became certified to teach through The New Teacher Project in the District of Columbia. In Washington D.C., she taught high school biology and conceptual physics before relocating to New York City. In New York City she continued to teach high school science until joining ScriptEd as a Program Manager. Tashay is deeply passionate about education and committed to achieving equity in the sciences for those that have been historically underserved.

Sabriya Stukes is a trained microbiologist, a one-time science podcaster, a burgeoning science communicator and fierce supporter of all things STEM. She is actively involved in many organizations and committees that help to increase diversity and awareness in the science fields for women and underrepresented minority communities. She is the acting editor for Women in Science News for the Scientista Foundation, and was once a writing intern for the Einstein Department of Communications and Public Affairs Office. As the Director of Science Events for the Minority Graduate Student Association (MGSN), she helps to organize career and professional development workshops, along with special events geared towards the NYC graduate community. She is the co-founder of the science outreach organization Connect With STEM; she created this program to increase the visibility of STEM professions as well as the types of people doing these jobs to high school students in the NYC area. She recently earned her doctoral degree in Biomedical Sciences at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the laboratory of Dr. Arturo Casadevall researching the mechanisms behind the host-pathogen interactions between macrophages and the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. She is now working at City College as the Assistant Director for the newly established Masters of Translational Research program. This innovative program aims to bridge science, engineering and entrepreneurship together to teach students from diverse academic backgrounds the foundation and expertise needed to produce practical solutions for health.

Called €œinnovative and inspiring by the American Counseling Association, licensed therapist and entrepreneur Bea Arthur has become a leader in the field of mental health care and telemedicine. With the goal of transforming traditional therapy into a more affordable and approachable experience, she created In Your Corner which provides instant, expert support when you need it. The Columbia University alum and TEDx speaker has been featured in Elle, MTV, Fast Company, Entrepreneur Magazine, Huffington Post, VentureBeat, NPR, and CNN. She was also named part of the New Guard of women in tech by Marie Claire magazine, an Entrepreneur to Bet on by Newsweek, as well as a frequent contributor on Fox & Friends. Bea is also the first African American woman to be accepted into the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program, and is the co-host and co-producer of new YouTube series You’re Not Crazy!

Sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank & hosted by the Zahn Innovation Center.

Questions? Email katherine@zahncenternyc.com