For four years I have volunteered to plan, design, and facilitate spaces for engaging in anti-racist work, including: 

• examining the characteristics of white supremacy culture (how they show up in society as a whole, in our communities collectively, and in our lives individually) and exploring strategies we can utilize to dismantle them

• implementing School Reform Initiative's Consultancy Protocol to tackle race-related dilemmas in school communities

• using Liza Talusan's book "The Identity-Conscious Educator" as an anchor text to investigate the strategies that can help us build habits and skills for creating more inclusive schools where we honor the different identities of our colleagues and students

• facilitating a group of educators exploring Zaretta Hammond's "Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students"

• employing Glenn Singleton's Four Agreements from "Courageous Conversations About Race"

• discussing Color Brave Space Norms from Equity Matters

For two years I was a Girls Who Code volunteer club facilitator.

Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in tech.  "The gender gap is getting worse.  In 1995, 37% of computer scientists were women.  Today it's only 24%.  The percent will continue to decline if we do nothing.  We know that the biggest drop off of girls in computer science is between the ages of 13 and 17.  Girls Who Code is changing the game.  We're reaching girls around the world and are on track to close the gender gap in new entry-level tech jobs by 2030.  

Girls Who Code is an organization that values diversity, equity, and inclusion as essential to our mission.  We acknowledge that historical and institutional barriers—particularly racial bias and discrimination—play a role in the widening gender gap in computer science and who has access to opportunities in these fields. Girls Who Code focuses our work not only on gender diversity but also on young women who are historically underrepresented in computer science fields, specifically girls who:

• Come from underrepresented minority groups, including African American/Black, Hispanic or Latina, Bi/ Multiracial, Native American/Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander;

• Come from low-income backgrounds, specifically free and/or reduced lunch eligible;

• Have had a lack of exposure or access to computer science.

Girls Who Code acknowledges and values the intersections of race/ethnicity, gender identity and expression, class, sexual orientation, ability, age, national origin, and religious/spiritual identities.

Girls Who Code welcomes into our community and programs anyone who identifies as female regardless of assignment at birth. Our programs also welcome people who identify as non-binary or gender nonconforming and want to be in a female-identified environment.

For several years I volunteered at the Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre in Cambridge, MA.

Their mission is to:

• Create new ballets of excellence that are stimulating and culturally relevant to diverse audiences

• Create an innovative approach to ballet training that welcomes diversity and ensures unanimous participation and achievement by all students

• Create sustainable, inclusive and engaging outreach programs that make ballet accessible to participants of all racial, cultural and economic backgrounds

• Reposition the role of dance in our culture and expand its purpose in the education of youth and enrichment of community locally and beyond

I have worked at the Scratch Annual Conference as a volunteer.

At the Scratch Foundation, "We believe in Scratch for all.  We support creative coding for everyone.  At the Scratch Foundation, our mission is to ensure that Scratch is available for free, for everyone, so that kids around the world can express their ideas through coding. As champions of the Scratch project, we raise funds to support the project and share stories of innovation, collaboration, and learning within the global Scratch community."

• Vision: To spread creative, caring, collaborative, equitable approaches to coding and learning around the world.

• Mission: Providing young people with digital tools and opportunities to imagine, create, share, and learn

• Impact:  Since 2014, the Scratch Foundation has provided nearly 5 million dollars in funding to the Scratch project. Through our efforts and the generous financial support of our donors, Scratch reaches millions of kids around the world across 196 countries and in more than 70 different languages.