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Women's Educational Equity Takes On Technology

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“While American women have advanced in the last 175 years, we haven’t come close to achieving equity,” said Laura Rebell-Gross, senior managing director of Girls’ Education with the Student Leadership Network, a nonprofit organization working for educational equity. Dr. Lisa Hinkelman shares research from her nonprofit, ROX.

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An Activist-Scholar

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Her research focuses on the intersection of race and media, specifically on how Asian Americans are working to improve their representation in mainstream media and to control their own narratives. a Black and Southeast Asian nonprofit organization that works with low- to no-income communities of color.

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Scholars Call on Educational Field to Protect LGBTQ+ Youth

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a nonprofit organization working for over 100 years to preserve the right to liberty for all, is currently tracking 321 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the U.S. This is re-enforcing the idea that research can be shaped merely to reflect the individual’s point of view.”

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

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Ivonne Diaz-Claisse “I told my story — what it took for me to achieve my dream — and at the end, the students wanted my autograph,” says Diaz-Claisse, president and CEO of Hispanics Inspiring Students’ Performance and Achievement (HISPA), a nonprofit organization based in New Jersey.

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How to Move Latinx Students into High-Paying Jobs

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These institutions know the students they have at their campuses, they know who they serve, what their needs are, and are connected to the community, making links between institutions to local service and employers,” said Emily Labandera, director of research at Excelencia.

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First Doctoral Program at a TCU Will Contribute to Native Sovereignty

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is not just about learning, reading, or writing Navajo, it’s really preparing [its students] with tools so that they will be efficient in designing their research studies, conducting research, and finding solutions to some of the challenges that we have,” says Guy. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D. Those same students are talented, creative.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

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She uses her visibility as a Black female scientist at the University of Florida, a Research 1 institution, to advocate for others. “In a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. She is also the founder and president of Moore Wealth, Inc.,