The Allies for Equity team is a group of student interns at the Center of Excellence for Women & Technology dedicated to promoting knowledge on inequities and improving efforts to address stereotypes and biases, especially related to those in underrepresented spaces, careers, and organizational structures. The team’s objective is centered around creating an inviting environment to discuss topics related to allyship and equity. This entails educating participants on what allyship is and how to be an effective ally. The team hopes to use the personal knowledge of interns, research, and the knowledge of professionals to raise awareness of negative influences perpetuated by stereotypes and gender biases in the workforce.
Description of the video:
Ues so my name is Jake Taylor and I am the lead for the Allies for Equity team at the Center of Excellence for Women and Technology. So Allies for Equity is an alliance team within the Center of Excellence for Women that is a group of undergrad men that learn about gender equity issues and how to use their identity and privileges and skills to uplift and be allies to women in tech spheres and outside of tech spheres as well. I think our team really hopes to grow and create more of a community so what we're really trying to do is to reach out to men and get them talking about these issues since they have a lot of power to make changes.
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Intern - Allies for Equity
Ananya is a second-year undergraduate student at the Kelley School of Business majoring in Finance and Business Analytics. Outside academics, Ananya enjoys reading, dancing, running, and spending time with her friends and family.
Intern - Allies for Equity
My name is Aubrey Highberger and I am a Computer Science major at Luddy. I am part of the Allies for Equity Team as an intern
Lead Intern - Allies for Equity
Jaqui Sanchez is from Mexico and is doing a master's in Information Systems. She has a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Special Education and loves to advocate for underrepresented groups.
Seonmi Jin (Sun)
Team Champion
Seonmi Jin is a Ph.D. candidate in Higher Education and Student Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. She has taught courses with the I Can Persist STEM initiative that aims to support female students of color majoring in STEM to explore ways to apply their knowledge in STEM disciplines to improve social and environmental justice. She has been invited to speak on improving gender equity in STEM and has published on the topics regarding DEIJ in faculty development and institutional research practices for equity. She has worked as a faculty developer in South Korea and is a co-leader for the faculty development track at the Assessment Institute. Integrating her background in international studies and global citizenship work, she currently focuses on research on creating a college environment that can empower minoritized women in STEM majors in the context of globalization.
