Leadership Team

NCWIT's Leadership Team, which brings together representatives from partner organizations with our Executive Team and Alliance co-chairs, provides advice and direction regarding the NCWIT mission.

Academic Alliance

The NCWIT Academic Alliance brings together nearly 650 distinguished representatives from academic computing programs at more than 275 colleges and universities across the country, spanning research universities, community colleges, women's colleges, and minority-serving institutions. Charged with implementing institutional change in higher education, the Academic Alliance provides feedback on NCWIT programs, contributes and adopts effective practices, and serves as a national agent of change. It meets several times per year to compare approaches and provide guidance and mutual support.

Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) was founded in 1994 by renowned computer scientist Anita Borg, Ph.D. (1949-2003). Initially known as the Institute for Women in Technology, IWT was renamed in 2003 to the Anita Borg Institute in order to honor Dr.

Barbara Gee

Association for Computing Machinery

ACM unites computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. Through its Special Interest Groups, ACM publishes the proceedings of more than 150 conferences and symposia each year. The ACM Digital Library provides an expanding bibliographic database of all relevant articles in computing, with over 1 million citations to date. ACM's mission includes assessing and influencing the impact of information technologies on all aspects of society. ACM also helps shape U.S.

John White

ACM Committee on the Status of Women (ACM-W)

ACM-W's mission is to celebrate, inform and support women in computing, and work with the ACM-W community of computer scientists, educators, employers and policymakers to improve working and learning environments for women.

Valerie Barr

Bobby Schnabel

Dr. Robert Schnabel is Dean of the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, where he leads a multi-campus school of over 100 faculty with graduate and undergraduate degrees in computer science and informatics.

Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology (CMD-IT)

CMD-IT is the national Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology that is focused on the following under-represented groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, and People with Disabilities. The center is comprised of corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profits.

Valerie Taylor

Coalition to Diversify Computing

The Coalition to Diversify Computing seeks to address the shortage of a highly trained workforce of scientists and engineers capable of understanding and implementing computing resources. The Coalition develops a diverse community of professionals that can effectively meet the computing demands of an evolving society, and targets students and faculty with the expressed intent of increasing the number of minorities successfully transitioning into computing-based careers in academia, federal laborities and industry.

Pamela Williams

Colorado Coalition for Gender & IT

The Colorado Coalition for Gender & IT works to increase the number of girls and women in information technology (IT) education and work. CCGIT recognizes the state's capacity for innovation and competitiveness depends on a larger, more diverse, and more sustainable workforce. By connecting girls and women to IT education and employment opportunities, CCGIT imagines a more equitable future for women, better technology for our society, and an improvd world for us all.

Deborah Keyek-Franssen

Computing Research Association (CRA)

The Computing Research Association (CRA) is an association of more than 200 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies. CRA seeks to strengthen research and advanced education in computing and allied fields.

Andrew Bernat

CRA Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W)

The Computer Research Associations Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) is an action-oriented organization dedicated to increasing the number of women participating in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) research and education at all levels. CRA-W also seeks to increase the degree of success they experience and to provide a forum for addressing problems that often fall disproportionately within women's domain.

Mary Lou Soffa

K-12 Alliance

The K-12 Alliance, made up of national girl-serving organizations, professional educator associations, academic institutions, and businesses, leverages the reach and diversity of its members to create national outreach programs that increase the participation of girls in computing. Through its members, the K-12 Alliance is able to reach over 55% of girls in the United States. See the full list of members here.

Lucy Sanders

Lucy Sanders is CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and also serves as Executive-in-Residence for the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Partnership for Advancing Computing Education (PACE)

The Partnership for Advancing Computing Education (PACE) enables and encourages organizations concerned with computing education to exchange information and collaborate on activities that will advance the state of computing education, address its challenges, and improve its quality. The communication and collaboration will take place at multiple levels of the participating organizations, including top industry and public policy leadership, key computing education leadership, and individual members.

Mark Guzdial

Social Science Advisory Board

The Social Science Advisory Board (SSAB) is an advisory group of social scientists from preeminent institutions nationwide that support NCWIT initiatives and goals through their knowledge of research and theory at the intersection of women and computing. Members bring expertise from the areas of anthropology, education, evaluation, gender studies, history, policy, psychology, sociology, technology, and workforce study. See the full list of members. For more information about the SSAB and its membership guidelines, view the SSAB Board Description and Membership Guidelines.

Telle Whitney

Dr. Telle Whitney has served as President and CEO of ABI since 2002. Whitney has 20 years experience in the semiconductor and telecommunicatins industries. She has held senior technical management positions with Malleable Technologies (now PMC-Sierra) and Actel Corporation, and is a co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.

University of California - Irvine

From its founding in the late 60s on a new campus with a unique vision, to its national ranking today, the Bren School has always been a trailblazer in computer science academics and research. From its early focus on providing a broad educational experience, to its current offering of four undergraduate computer science degree programs, a Bren School education is grounded in the basics but also explores the newest technologies and advancements. UC Irvine hosts a club called Women in Information & Computer Sciences.