SPECIAL THANKS

CISCO Volunteers

Representatives from CISCO (listed below) joined the girls via WebEx, as guest speakers, discussed their job/role, real life problems coding has solved and discussed why the girls should pursue a career in the field of technology. :

Jessi Kutina, CISCO Database Administrator
Jennie Kam, Security Researcher
Maya Earl, Project Manager
Paige McKenzie, Security & Trust Organization (STO), Cisco Systems, Inc.
Mariana Gardinali, Software Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Expert Guest Speakers

Dr. Angela McDonald, Interim Dean, College of Health Sciences; Associate Professor, Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Dr. McDonald discussed impact project topic; Mental Health.

Dr. Erik Mitchell, The Audrey Geisel University Librarian, UC San Diego (joined via webex). Dr. Mitchell provided an overview of his job, real life problems coding has solved and discussed why the girls should pursue a career in the field of technology.

Ms. April Whittmore-Locklear, Assistant Director of Employer Relations. - Ms. Whittmore-Locklear provided an overview of “Presentation Etiquette”

Dell Technologies Volunteer

Ms. Nishita Roy-Pope, Senior Consultant, Strategy, Operations & Programs, Services & Digital Team, from Dell Technologies, helped us get the Girls who Code program started at UNC Pembroke.

GOOGLE

Google Provided the girls with Google SWAG

Project Sponsors and Project Team Members

Nancy Crouch, Retired CIO, UNC Pembroke Sponsor

Scott Billingsley, Academic Affairs, UNC Pembroke Sponsor

Rose Marie Townsend-Lowery, Lumbee Tribe of NC Sponsor

Harvey Godwin, Lumbee Tribe of NC Sponsor

Freda Porter, Lumbee Tribe of NC Sponsor

Kindra Locklear, DoIT, Project Co-Lead

Mary Beth Locklear, Office for Regional Initiatives, Project Co-Lead

Lisa N. Mitchell, School of Education, Facilitator, recruitment of student volunteers

Kayonna Pitchford, School of Education, Director of Partnerships

Yasmine George, Facilitator, UNC Pembroke School of Education Student

Brandan Riley, Facilitator, UNC Pembroke Math and Computer Science Student

Dennis Swanson, Library - computer lab

Xin (Cynthia) Zhang, Math and Computer Science, recruitment of student volunteers

Melissa Edwards, Math Education, recruitment of student volunteers

Celeste Hunt, Lumbee Tribe of NC, youth development coordinator and liaison for Boys and Girls Club

Alfred Bryant, School of Education, Champion

Tiffany Locklear, School of Education

Bari Snyder - DoIT, Networking

Liz Cummings, IT Support Services

James Lewis, IT Support Services

Nishita Roy, Dell, Champion

Kelvin Jacobs - Legal Review

Jodi Phelps - Marketing Review

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