Contributors
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Rebecca Wepsic Ancheta served as the coordinator of research for the Techbridge program. She is an affiliated scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University and has published her research on women's experiences with cosmetic surgery. She has a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, San Francisco.
Steven Bean is the senior program manager of the Program Development Unit at Education, Training, Research Associates, where he develops, tests, and disseminates youth development programs. Bean earned his MA in teaching from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has more than twelve years of experience in experiential education and has worked in a variety of settings including outdoor adventure learning, environmental education, youth leadership, and education for high-risk youth.
Lenore Blum is the Women@SCS faculty advisor and codirector (along with Carol Frieze and Jeannette Wing) of the new Sloan-funded Women@IT program. For more than thirty years, she has created programs to increase the participation of girls and women in scientific and technical fields, and she cofounded many proactive organizations such as the Math/Science Network and its "Expanding Your Horizons" conferences. She joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in fall 1999 as a Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, where she is also codirector of the NSF-ALADDIN Center.
Natalie Bookchin connects her extensive knowledge of photographic art to the more experimental genre of Net art to create works that speak of the technology culture. Bookchin's works allow for active participation in the viewing and creating of new temporal art. Bookchin uses the game interface as a medium to share ideas about sexism, Net activism, and biotechnology. Natalie Bookchin received her bachelor's degree in art from the State University of [End Page 181] New York at Purchase, completed her MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago, and studied at the Whitney Museum in 1992. She is a faculty member in the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts.
Shannon Campe is a research associate at Education, Training, Research Associates. She has a teaching credential with cross-cultural, language, and academic development emphases. She is the program leader for the Girls Creating Games project.
J. McGrath Cohoon conducts research, publishes, and speaks on women's underrepresentation in IT and gender segregation in higher education. Her research has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Cohoon is on the faculty at the University of Virginia in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Curry School of Education. She has a BA in philosophy (Ramapo College of New Jersey), an MA in student personnel administration in higher education (Columbia University), and a PhD in Sociology (University of Virginia). Cohoon is a member of the National Center for Women in IT Social Science Network, the Georgia Tech College of Computing Diversity Advisory Board, the PROACT Advisory Board, and the Working Committee on Women in Computing of ACM-W. Her research interests include technology and gender, education and gender, higher education, and organizations.
Leda Cooks (PhD, Ohio University) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her teaching and research range from the analysis of the social effect of information and communication technologies on gender and communication and interracial and intercultural communication. Her research on the formation of identity and community in ICTs has appeared in journals, such as Electronic Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies, and Communication Quarterly, and in the following books: Cyberimperialism, Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet, Communication and Global Society, and Virtual Morality.
E. G. Crichton melds her interests in young children's playground rhythms and rhymes with her curiosity of single women's gravesites to reconstruct the histories of women's lives. Crichton explores social justice issues through many artistic venues, using historical research, personal experiences, and interview data to invent overlapping narratives told in photographs, prose, and audio recordings. She completed a bachelor's degree in art at San Francisco State University, earned an MFA with high distinction from the California College of Arts and Crafts, and is currently employed as an assistant professor at the...
