Black Girls Thriving: Exploring How Confidence Is Catalyzed in Three Community STEM-Based Organizations

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium presents data from three Black women CEOs and Founders of community organizations that focus specifically on serving K-12 Black girls’ learning in mathematics and science. These community organizations are located in St. Louis, Detroit, and Philadelphia, three urban cities with a myriad of concerns related to racial injustice. But there is also much light and good in these cities—[These three amazing community organizations BLIND]. Using their annual community reports, surveys, and focus groups, they share how they disrupt racial/gender inequalities in STEM. Intersectionality and Black girlhood are used as lenses for understanding the various ways they create liberatory experiences for Black girls that decenter patriarchy and whiteness.

Sub Unit

• Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education

Chair

• Marlena Eanes Snowden, Vanderbilt University

Participant

• Nicole M. Joseph, Vanderbilt University

Papers

• Curiosity, Confidence, and Commitment: 3Cs That Matter for Black Girls’ STEM Efficacy and Belonging - Cynthia Chapple, Black Girls Do STEM

• Real-World Math With a Culturally Relevant Twist for Black Girls - Brittany Rhodes, Black Girl MATHgic

• Making Mathematics a Black Girl’s Superpower - Atiyah Harmon, Black Girls Love Math

Discussant

• Crystal Morton, Indiana University - Indianapolis