Meet Dr. Quincy Brown: Your Journey is Never a Straight Line; Electrical Engineering AND Computer Science; and Scaling Your Impact

STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia

Episode Summary:

1) You do not have to have it all figured out. You do not have to be the smartest or brightest. What you need to be is willing enough to go on the journey, persevere, be curious and have drive.
2) Dr. Brown is REALLY SMART!!! LOL!!! Her story isn't a straight one of nerd for life (and there ain't nothing, NO THING, wrong with being a Nerd!!). She stayed true to herself at every level even while she was walking it out in real life.
3) We talked about some of the instances of racial injustices from our past. It made me realize just how long we've been in this fight. Doesn't mean we give up; instead it means we acknowledge the past but fight for the future.
4) I love, LOVE what she said about Scale of Impact!!! I'd not thought of the work that I do that way before. It was clarifying for me and I hope for you. What is the scale of your impact? How are you measuring it and what does it mean?
Dr. Quincy Brown Bio:
Quincy Brown, Ph.D., is a Program Director for STEM Education Research at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Her project portfolio includes the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program and investigating innovations in Preservice STEM teacher education, investigating STEM mentoring practices, and supporting the AAAS Emerging Researchers National Conference.

She was previously a Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. There her portfolio included Agricultural Entrepreneurship, STEM Education, and the My Brother's Keeper STEM+Entrepreneurship initiatives. She spent two years an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation in the CISE Directorate. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Drexel University. She is a recipient of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) CI Fellows Postdoctoral Research Fellowship award and was a National Science Foundation GK-12 and Bridge To the Doctorate Fellow.

Dr. Brown was also a Professor of Computer Science at Bowie State University. Her research interests included Mobile HCI, CS Education, and Broadening Participation in Computing. In 2011 she founded Girls Who Will, a summer program for middle and high school girls. Through her research she sought to identify methods of facilitating human interaction with advanced technologies to support learning. Her projects included exploring the ways in which young children use touch and gesture interactions with mobile devices, first responders' use of mobile devices during emergency evacuations, and modeling inquiry behaviors on mobile devices.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quincy-k-brown?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3B8VlrjSp5RlS7CFswwT9UuA%3D%3D
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/quincykbrown

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