Women of Color Speak on Their Experiences in Computing Education

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 9:00 am
  In Roundtable Session: Girls and Women of Color in STEM Education: Amplifying Voices and Experiences (Table 17)

Abstract

To challenge the insidiousness of Computing Capitalism, the emergence of the 4th Industrial Revolution that normalizes unsustainable extractivist practices centering on white settler colonialism, the authors remind the readers of the original, earth-based, interdependent forms of computing through reclaiming ancestral knowledge system frameworks in computing education. To this end, the authors describe the process of decolonizing computing by establishing an Ancestral Computing Research Project (ACRP) by researchers of color across four directions of Turtle Island. ACRP asked Women of Color using a national survey and contemplative focus group gatherings about their experiences in computing. The results shed light on how this research endeavor transformed spaces of academic praxis. It created spaces that decolonize computing practice and research.

Authors

• Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval, California State University - Stanislaus

• Joseph F. Carroll-Miranda, University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

• April Lindala, Northern Michigan University

• Ebony Terrell Shockley, University of Maryland

• Michelle C Chatman, University of the District of Columbia

• Jeffery S. Fleming, University of the District of Columbia

• Denise Cadeau, Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College

• Maria Gabriel, California State University - Stanislaus

• Brandon Montano, California State University - Stanislaus