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Women of Color (WoC) – particularly Black, indigenous, and Latine women – are the most underrepresented demographic from high paying industries, including software engineering. Yet WoC are flush with the talent, creativity, and social insight to solve complex problems and lead in the software industry. This program seeks to unite minoritized groups, particularly women of color, trans women, gender queer, and other people of color to reduce isolation and marginalization that are prevalent in educational institutions and industry settings. Using a dedicated Slack space, we foster a peer mentoring network of people to engage, receive feedback, and troubleshoot issues around participation in open source software communities.
We host monthly 1 hour webinars, featuring code-sharing and talks by professionals from academia and the software industry. Go to the WoCCode Webinar Events page for program scheduling and details.
WoCCode is an Astropy sponsored IDE (Inclusion, Diversity, and Empowerment) project, which receives funding support from the Moore Foundation. Questions about the program can be directed to WoCCode at gmail.com
Interested in mentoring coders? You can advertise your availability to provide one-on-one mentorship during a set "office hour." Instructions for setting this up are available on the Mentoring Program page. Your available office hours will then be posted on the Office Hours page.
WoCCode participants can sign up to work together on a specific project during WoCCode 2022. Anyone in WoCCode may propose a project, just edit the wiki! Go to the Hack Project page to advertise your project, view current projects, and sign up for projects.
Mentors will conduct instructional workshops on special topics on an as-needed and as-available basis.
WoCCode mentors help structure the program and provide instructional events and guidance.
Dr. Lia Corrales is an Assistant Professor in Astronomy at University of Michigan. She works on various problems in high resolution X-ray spectroscopy and advanced observational techniques that extend the limits of modern day observatories. Her primary research focus is on the astromineralogy of interstellar dust, which yields insight on the chemical evolution of the Universe and the origin of life. Her expertise in the Chandra X-ray Observatory has led her to study the low-luminosity accretion flow of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Her research group has now expanded to study high energy transmission spectroscopy of exoplanet atmospheres and the role of high energy irradiation planetary evolution.
Dr. Corrales works to develop inclusive research environments in a variety of forms. She has been the co-chair for American Astronomical Society (AAS) Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy (CSMA), has organized workshops for the Women in Astronomy IV conference (June 2017), is the Astropy Tutorial Content Lead for the Astropy Collaboration, and the program lead for WoCCode.
Mariana has a career driven by meaning and finds a lot of significance and love in libre software and the internet. The concept of liberating knowledge and nurturing cultural and scientific development deeply resonates with many of her personal goals and working towards making the digital world more accessible and comfortable for all is a very fulfilling mission to her.
She currently works as a software engineer in the NumFOCUS ecossystem. She's a Jupyter distinguished contributor and a member of the Ipywidgets council.
James Chibueze is a radio astronomer with strong interest and skills in radio interferometry. His research is focus on high-resolution studies of massive star formation within the Milky Way. He has spent years working on science commissioning of various telescopes like ALMA, African VLBI Network (Ghana 32-m telescope) and the MeerKAT.
James develops packages for verifying the performance of the different capabilities of radio instrument and for modeling the data obtained from radio telescopes. He is also very interest in growing the human capacity in astronomy and computing in Africa.