STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia
Dr. Natoshia Anderson
An entertaining and revealing podcast, highlighting some of the most badass minority women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math(STEM) today. You are going to laugh, cry, shout, be inspired, and gain new knowledge from these amazing women. Hosted by award-winning STEM advocate, educator, strategist, mechanical engineer, and motivational speaker, Dr. Natoshia Anderson (Dr. Toshia), join us for an engaging, invigorating, motivational, and inspirational journey.
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Meet Dr. Muhsinah Morris: Into the Metaverse
STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia
01/17/23 • 64 min
Episode Summary
1) Her STEM Story started with her brother's disability and her wanting to understand it and try to find a way to assist in making his life easier.
2) She has been able to bring her STEM education and her imaginative and creative nature to her work.
3) She has taught high school and at the collegiate level. She loves working with students to understand how the brain works. It is her life's work.
4) She has been able to pair Maker Spaces and Chemistry together and now the Metaverse and Science together.
5) Her work with the Metaverse and VR is inspiring others throughout the country and is indeed inspiring the next generation of STEM professionals to follow in her footsteps.
Dr. Muhsinah Morris Bio
Muhsinah L. Holmes Morris, Ph.D., is the academic program director and assistant professor of chemistry. Morris received a B.S. in chemistry from Clark Atlanta University with honors (cum laude) and an M.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry from Emory University (biomolecular division). Her research encompasses working in the Morehouse Makerspace Exploration Center, 3D Printing Specialized Laboratory Equipment for those with Autism and other Developmental Disorders. She is the PI of the Morris Research and Innovation Group, where they research and develop technologically innovative solutions for those with autism. Dr. Morris won the 2021 Vulcan Teaching Award of Excellence and launched her Advanced Inorganic Chemistry course in virtual reality in the spring of 2021 in the digital twin campus created by VictoryXR on the Engage Platform. She is a pioneer in this space as the chemistry content in VR is limited to non-existent. Wife to a gamer and mom to five sons, she is an inventive autism mom, a volunteer advocacy ambassador, National Community Advisory Council member, and grant review committee member for Autism Speaks. Her purpose in life is to create inclusivity in STEAAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, agriculture, and math). She believes that VR provides a pathway for creating that inclusion through immersive education, vocational rehabilitation services, and therapeutic experiences.
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/drmuhsinahmorris
Website: unitethemetaverse.com
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Meet Ursula Spencer: One Super Dope Nerd
STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia
04/19/23 • 57 min
Episode Summary
Ursula Spencer is a super dope nerd. She is a Black woman in STEM who has overcome all the -isms to lead her own company that serves kids all over the world. Early on in her career, she took ownership and wrote her own path. She is an entrepreneur and tech guru that is investing in our future through Dope Nerds and AR/VR. This episode takes the listener through some of her past experiences and give insight into why she feels so strongly about giving back to the community and bringing young, gifted, and Black students into the world of tech.
Ursula Spencer Bio
The founder of Dope Nerds is a self-taught technologist and accomplished tech entrepreneur. At the young age of 11, she taught herself how to hack and launched her first tech company at 21 years of age. With over 30 years of experience as a Sr. Consultant, Subject Matter Expert, and Technical Advisor, she has worked for organizations such as the Federal Reserve Bank, Chase, and Bankers Trust, ultimately leading technology teams for the Federal Reserve System's twelve banks. Her interest in virtual reality began in 2009 when she became an early adopter of online virtual worlds to understand its potential impact on industries beyond entertainment and gaming. In 2019, she founded Dope Nerds as a brand, focusing on leveraging her technical expertise to provide innovative and impactful learning experiences for youth and under-represented communities.
Website: https://dopenerds.tech
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ursulaspencer/
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Advice From a Woman in STEM: Meet Erica Cooper, Technical Leader at Cisco Systems
STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia
03/03/20 • 38 min
Erica Cooper is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems based in the Washington DC metropolitan area, where she provides technical solutions for various government and non-government customers. The technologies that she focuses on are DataCenter, SDN, Cloud, Virtualization, and Security. She graduated from Keller Graduate School of Management (MS. Telecommunications and Business) and she also has a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering. She holds several industry certifications including the following:
CCIE Data Center
CCNP Routing and Switching
VCP- NV Network Virtualization
In her spare time she enjoys traveling with family, watching and participating in sports and listening to EDM/House music. She is a phenomenal woman in STEM who believes that telling our stories is vitally important to the future of the STEM.
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Meet Cynthia Chapple: STEM is Curious; Questioning Everything
STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia
08/02/22 • 36 min
Episode Summary
1) She is naturally curious and that led her to be in STEM. She finds joy in being curious and being about to find answers to the questions that she's had for most of her life.
2) Black Girls Do STEM is her non-profit where she embraces the "curious Black girl. "
3) She is keenly aware of the disparities that exist in the world as it relates to Black girls and Black women.
Cynthia Chapple Bio
Cynthia is an innovative scientist an advocate for black girls and women, and advocates for high level STEM learning to be a reality for all of our children. In keeping with this work Cynthia is the founder of Black Girls Do STEM an organization offering exploration of STEM career pathways through hands on engaging curriculum in the areas of Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics to middle and high school black girls to expose them to career pathways and empower them to become STEM professionals. Therefore, she prides herself on mentoring youth as well as advocating for equitable policies and practices that will make for a more inclusive science community. She looks for more ways in which STEM industries and the higher education community can be a part of bridging the inclusion gap and inspiring the next generation of scientist, so that black women will have equitable representation in the STEM workplaces of today and tomorrow. As a technical business professional, Cynthia has worked as a research and development chemist where she created innovative coating solutions for the electrical and electronics market.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cynthia-chapple
Website: Black Girls Do STEM | Giving black girls a scientific tomorrow. (bgdstem.com)
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Meet Dr. Treva Brown: The Scientist and the Beauty Queen
STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia
08/03/21 • 52 min
Episode Summary
1) She's smart and beautiful. She says that Chemistry chose her and not the other way around.
2) She believes that being in STEM is important that she was inspired by having a chance encounter with a scientist. That meeting changed her life.
3) That scientist awarded her a scholarship that allowed her to attend her dream college, LSU where she received her degree.
4) She believes that having friends, mentors, sponsors, and a good support system are all needed especially in STEM Careers.
5) She understands that all of us are multifaceted people with more than one singular gift. That we can be STEM professionals AND a dancer, or debutante, or pageant queen. All are possible.
6) She believes that she is changing the face of pageantry and the face of STEM.
Dr. Treva Brown Bio
Treva Brown was born and raised in North Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She received her diploma from Baton Rouge Magnet High School. She dreamed of attending Louisiana State University and her physics teacher provided her with advice and information. Treva recalls, “Ms Cao told me about STEM programs at LSU and I began considering them and came across the LA-STEM [Louisiana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics] Scholars Program, for which I applied, and met Dr Isiah Warner. It was through listening to his story, and some research through the LSU Chemistry website, that I decided to choose Chemistry as my major and have loved it ever since.”
Treva became a LSU tiger in the Department of Chemistry at LSU and took charge of her undergraduate experience. Her journey as an undergraduate was a very fruitful experience. She began research in Professor Jayne Garno’s group. She gained intensive experience in atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning probe lithography to study organic thin films of n-alkanethiols. She analyzed and performed surface chemistry studies of organosilanes via particle lithography and chemical vapor deposition. Treva presented her research and won presentation awards at many conferences across the nation including ACS, SERMACS, NOBCChE, and Triple EX. As a senior, Treva served as a TA for General Chemistry Laboratory, which was good experience in preparation for graduate school. Eager to share her passion for STEM, Treva became a counselor in a summer program hosted by the Office of Strategic Initiatives. She served as a role model for the incoming LSU freshmen, entering the LA-STEM Research Scholars Program, helping them to transition into college life. She emphasized the principles of leadership, scholarship, and success by expressing the importance of excellence in mentoring, education, research, and outreach. As she reminisced about her time in the Department, Treva says, “I appreciated the outpouring of encouragement and support from programs such as LA-STEM Research Scholars, LS-LAMP (Louis Stokes Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation), IMSD (Initiative for Maximizing Student Development), and HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) Professors Program. Without the continued encouragement and support from the professors and staff that worked with these programs, I probably would not be where I am today in the scientific world.”
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevabrownphd
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Meet Shermaine Perry Knights: Systems Thinking; Processes are King; The Gift of Feedback
STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia
03/09/21 • 33 min
Episode Summary
1) Feedback is so important in business and in life and its one of the things that gets overlooked in the hustle and bustle of the day.
2) We need people advocating for us at the K-12 level in policy and politics. There is much work to be done there to reverse the effects of racism and discrimination that STILL exist in the system.
3) Process is KING!! It defines your behavior; management's behavior. Its generally not a person, its the process.
Shermaine Perry Knight Bio
Shermaine Perry-Knights is the founder and chief learning officer at Innovation Consultants of DeKalb. She is also a Senior Trainer and Instructional Designer for Fulton County Government. She is an engaging educator and workforce development coach with a passion for creating aha moments and learning solutions.
Shermaine is early in her talent development career and is viewed as a leader by peers and colleagues. She wears a strategic business partner hat, offering advice to executives for process improvement and employee development in her combined roles of instructional designer, project manager, senior trainer, teacher, and facilitator.
She has experience designing and delivering customized management and workforce development programs to classrooms ranging from 20 to 300 attendees. Shermaine has delivered content on topics including career pivots, employee experience, accountability, communicating across generations, leadership, project management, and conflict resolution.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shermaineperry
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Shermaine's Books
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Shermaine-Perry-Knights/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AShermaine+Perry-Knights
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Meet Dr. Iris Wagstaff: Navigating a Hostile Environment; The Magic of Professional Networks; and Being an Ally
STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia
10/06/20 • 43 min
Episode Summary
1) Navigating an environment that has not been made for you or to support you is difficult at best. It is left to you to figure out how best to exist in this world, unfortunately.
2) Professional networks ARE so important to helping Black women and other minority women in finding that balance and sense of self in this world
3) The work that Iris and others are doing is soooooooooooooo important, however they cannot do it alone. Allies are needed, but not the superficial, surface level ones that don't actually mean what they say or do anything outside of saying meaningless words. We need people who are going to be in this fight to change this environment for the long haul.
Dr. Iris Wagstaff Bio:
She is a scientist, educator, mentor, researcher and STEM advocate. She currently serves as a STEM Program Director in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department of AAAS where I manage a $15 Million Dollar portfolio focused on broadening participation in STEM, workforce development ,and inclusive technology and innovation ecosystems. She served as a 2015-2017 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the DOJ National Institute of Justice Office where I developed and led an agency-wide diversity and inclusion initiative. She is a native of Goldsboro, NC with a BS and MS in Chemistry from UNC-Greensboro and NC A&T State Universities respectively; and a PhD in Science Education from North Carolina State University. Iris worked as a research chemist at the Dow Chemical Company for 15 years leading analytical project teams and company-wide diversity initiatives. She has over 20 years of STEM outreach and advocacy developing informal science programs, mentoring, resourcing parents, leading k-12 STEM teacher professional development, and building strategic partnerships between industry, academia, and community organizations.
She is also a social scientist with a research focus on examining factors that predict science self-efficacy, science identity, and STEM career intent in underrepresented/under-served youth populations. She serves on the Boards of several organizations that include the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), the Chemical Society of Washington (CSW), and Science, Engineering, and Math Links (SEM). She is an adjunct chemistry professor at UNC-Greensboro where she leads diversity and inclusion efforts to broaden participation in the chemical sciences. She has received several honors that include the 2019 DC Metro HBCU Alumni Alliance Award for Education, the 2019 AERA Science Teaching and Learning Research Award, the 2019 BEYA Science Spectrum Trailblazer Award, the 2018 NOBCChE Presidential Award for Mentoring, the 2017 Women of Color in STEM K-12 Promotion of Education Award, and a 2016 nomination for the NSF Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math, Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iris-r-wagstaff-ph-d-57140717?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BhOrS0zRAQ6uPmifs2I0T%2FA%3D%3D
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Meet Shazia Imam: The Bond of Womenhood, Engineers ARE Passionate People, What Are the Stats
STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia
06/02/20 • 32 min
Episode Main Points
1) Engineers are Innovative, Creative, and passionate about their work
2) The Bond of womenhood is key to success in a lot of cases
3) Battling the stats about women in STEM is tiring but needed.
Guest Bio:
Shazia Imam, The Life Engineer, is an award-winning speaker, and host of the Top 12 Podcast - Feminine & Fulfilled. Shazia is a Certified Life Coach and holds an Industrial & Systems Engineering degree from Virginia Tech. Recognized as Woman of the Year in her Engineering department, Shazia went on to become an award-winning Management Consultant with 20 years of experience at companies including Disneyland, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture, and Booz Allen Hamilton. In 2012, Shazia was awarded the coveted Technology Rising Star for Women of Color in STEM.
Her resume may include extensive experience in Fortune 500 companies, but her soul's calling is to help women unleash their authentic self and live purposefully. As a recovering people-pleasing perfectionist, Shazia knows all too well the empty feeling even when you seem to, quote/unquote, “have it all.” After experiencing her own life fall apart after losing her son and then husband, Shazia realized it was a Divine push to begin living her REAL life. This blossomed into finding her soul mate, discovering her soft feminine power, and living her deep purpose...One which involves women unleashing their WHOLE selves to feel fulfilled, happy and whole. Isn't life more fabulous that way?!
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Throwback Episode: Woman of Color and Self Care
STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia
04/22/20 • 41 min
What is self care and why is it important? Self Care is literally how we as women are taking care of ourselves in our daily lives. Are you spending time developing yourself and your interests? Are you relaxing and doing things for yourself. It is not selfish to take care of yourself, it is NECESSARY. Women of color in all walks of life are notorious for being bad at doing this. This throwback episodes with my former co-hosts and I gives some really good and still relevant advice about how to take care of yourself. I sincerely hope that you enjoy this one!!
Dr. Toshia
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Meet Dr. Aisha Lawrey: The Importance of Interning, Becoming Yourself, and Using Your Voice,
STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia
08/11/20 • 49 min
Episode Summary:
1) Internships are so important especially when deciding on your next career move right out of college. Do them and discover what it is that you like or don't like;
2) It is so important that as a woman in STEM and a Black women in particular that you do not downplay your abilities for anyone. Own all of your talents and gifts
3) When you have the opportunity to be in the room, use your voice for good and help others.
4) Let's not compete with other Black women, but try to help where needed.
5) Take the time to find yourself and your sweet spot, personally and professionally.
Bio:
STEM advocate, Aisha Lawrey, has 20 years of experience on this journey. Working in industry, government, nonprofits, and education she knows how to engage many different stakeholders, at all levels. Her focus is on increasing the number of women and minorities in engineering.
Aisha recently joined the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), Inc. as the Senior Director, Programs and Scholarships. She is responsible for planning, directing and executing all scholarships and program activities. Prior to joining NACME, Aisha was the Director of Engineering Education with the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). She directed and guided the work of ASME in helping to shape the future of mechanical engineering and engineering technology.
Aisha obtained a Master of Public Administration and Policy from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. A New Jersey native, Aisha now resides in Maryland with her husband and 12-year-old twins.
Social Media Accounts:
https://www.facebook.com/AishaKenya
https://twitter.com/AishaKenya77
https://www.instagram.com/akbosslyfe
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aishalawrey
For students studying engineering and computer science, please check out NACME, Inc. for opportunities to apply for scholarships. www.nacme.org
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How many episodes does STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia have?
STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia currently has 138 episodes available.
What topics does STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia cover?
The podcast is about Black Women, Society & Culture, Leadership, Women, Empowerment, Podcasts, Technology, Science, Business, Minority, Careers, Engineering and Girls.
What is the most popular episode on STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia?
The episode title 'Meet Dr. Keli Christopher: STEM Greenhouse and Bringing Justice and STEM Together' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia?
The average episode length on STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia is 43 minutes.
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Episodes of STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of STEMming in Stilettos with Dr. Toshia was released on Feb 6, 2020.
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