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OMG, I QUIT MY JOB!

I’m kicking off season 2 with some news!! I QUIT MY JOB! I quit my mechanical engineering job, started a new one in tech, and have been busy ever since.

How Can Black Women Be Each Other’s Allies?

In her latest Forbes feature, author @MindaHarts, shared her inspirational views on Black women allies, building community, and excelling professionally. Amplify each other’s voices. Promote each other’s work. Hire each

We Need #MoreBlackDoctors

We Need #MoreBlackDoctors! You know it. I know it. And now, Dr. Oz is doing something to help push this initiative forward. He’s launching the Diversity in Medicine Scholarship Award

Introducing the STEMpowered Women Podcast!

Introducing the STEMpowered Women podcast! Tune in each week to hear stories from boss women sharing inspiration, career advice, health tips, and serving realness that’ll prepare you to take on

Looking for a Career in Energy? You Should Be.

If you’ve never considered a career in energy then you definitely should! You’ve probably learned a little about the large companies leading in oil and gas (petroleum industry), but there’s

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Happy International Women’s Day!!

Happy International Women’s Day to all the beautiful, smart, amazing women making an impact in their field, in other’s lives, and beyond! I made this Black women in STEM collage

Accenture’s Hiring Young Technologists!

We just had a new opportunity cross our table and we wanted to share it with you all IMMEDIATELY! This February, Accenture Chicago will host their Midwest Diversity Career Consortium

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Get Creative with LEGO Forma!

As our society continues to push forward in a digital age, toy companies have to get a little creative to take us offline. Not too long ago the “adult coloring

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SIS Spotlight: Arlyne Simon

Meet Dr. Arlyne Simon! Arlyne is a biomedical engineer, inventor, author, and entrepreneur with three medical device patents. In 2012, she invented a blood test that detects when cancer patients

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STEMPowered Women You Should Know: Corlis Murray

Meet Corlis Murray, the Senior Vice President of Quality, Regulatory, and Engineering Services at Abbott Labs. Throughout her almost 30-year career she has been an advocate for increasing diversity in

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Sistas in STEM Meets WakandaCon!

Did Black Panther make you wish you worked in Wakanda? Their technology is out of this world, men and women are treated as equals, and melanin flows everywhere you go!

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SIS Spotlight: Billye Boddie

Meet Billye Boddie! Billye is a Telecommunications Engineer striving to make an impact in her field and beyond. At the beginning of her career, she spent many late nights teaching

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Little Black Dress Night 2018 Highlights

 Chicago Tech Academy High School ended May by hosting its highly anticipated 4th Annual Little Black Dress Night. Women and men from across the city came to support the

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Sistas on YouTube!

Hey Sistas! We’re on YouTube! Make sure you subscribe to our new YouTube channel where you can find interviews, SIS Chats, and insiders from Sistas all over! Watch the video

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MOMpreneur Survival Tips

There are many challenges that come along with entrepreneurship. Mix that with five children, and you get a whole new set of obstacles thrown in your way. You’re focused on

SIS Spotlight: Adrianne Wheeler

Meet Adrianne Wheeler! Adrianne is a STEM educator, who graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering. She received her Masters of

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Project SYNCERE ENpowered Games

THIS EVENT HAS PASSED. Project SYNCERE needs your help! This year they are going BIG by hosting the 1st Annual ENpowered Games, a Middle School Engineering Competition. The event will

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Am I Qualified?: Overcoming Self-Doubt

As you begin your career, you are metaphorically adding paint strokes to the empty canvas that is adulthood. The brush is in your hand and your decisions are the different

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Welcome to Sistas in STEM

Hello Everyone! Welcome to the Sistas in STEM website!   Sistas in STEM (SIS) was started by a few friends as an organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign