Brenda Castro
PhD candidate, information science
Fellowships and Faculty Grants
Fellowships at Cornell Tech
Xiao Ma
PhD candidate, information science
Neta Tamir
PhD candidate, information science
Natalie Abrams
Master of Computer Science
Kathleen Szabo
Master of Operations Research and Information Engineering
Shaine Leibowitz
Master of Computer Science
Faculty Grants at CUNY
Each year, Break Through Tech New York awards grants to CUNY faculty in support of gender equity in tech. The funding is used to support a wide variety of initiatives across CUNY including recruitment efforts, mentorship programs, curriculum innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration around data science, summer camps, speaker series, professional development workshops, makerspaces, and hackathons.
2018-2019 Grant Recipients
Eva Sofiano
Lehman College
Grant: CS0 as a pathway to Computer Science at Lehman College
Radhika Jain
Baruch College
Grant: To increase and retain participation of women in the undergraduate program in Information Systems at Baruch College
Mercedes Franco
Queensborough Community College
Grant: To embed project-based learning (PBL) into an introduction to computers and programming (CS100) course
Yan Chen
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Grant: Women@CIS-BMCC
Yun Ye
LaGuardia Community College
Grant: To establish women-in-tech culture through curriculum and co-curriculum innovation
Michael Lawrence
Queensborough Community College
Grant: To promote women’s interest in technology by project-based 3D print makerspace and coding experience program