Black Women + Tech: Disrupting the Status Quo Founders' Fireside Chat
In celebration of Black History Month, the Zahn Center and Black Studies Program at the City College of New York are hosting a fireside chat with two amazing founders: Dr. Quincy Brown of blackcomputeHER and Regina Gwynn of TresseNoire Beauty and Black Women Talk Tech.
They'll discuss representation in tech entrepreneurship, as well as how to tackle a problem that you want to solve using entrepreneurship. They will also discuss how you can pair your passion (whatever industry it's in) with technology to create something new and innovative.
If you're an entrepreneur, want to learn more about entrepreneurship, or just want to support two awesome black female founders, join us for this event taking place on Thursday, February 18th via Zoom from 5:30-6:30pm, followed by a 30 minute networking session.
Sign up here and a Zoom link will be provided to you a day before the event.
More about our speakers:
Quincy Brown, Ph.D., was recently a Program Director for STEM Education Research at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Her project portfolio includes the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program and investigating innovations in Preservice STEM teacher education, investigating STEM mentoring practices, supporting the AAAS Emerging Researchers National Conference, and investigating making and innovation on HBCU campuses.
She was previously a Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. There her portfolio included Agricultural Entrepreneurship, STEM Education, and the My Brother's Keeper STEM+Entrepreneurship initiatives. She is a co-founder of NationOfMakers.org and blackcomputeHER.org. She spent two years as an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation in the CISE Directorate. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Drexel University. She was a recipient of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) CI Fellows Postdoctoral Research Fellowship award and was a National Science Foundation GK-12 and Bridge to the Doctorate Fellow.
Dr. Brown was also a Professor of Computer Science at Bowie State University. Her research interests included Mobile HCI, CS Education, and Broadening Participation in Computing. In 2011 she founded Girls Who Will, a summer program for middle and high school girls. Through her research she sought to identify methods of facilitating human interaction with advanced technologies to support learning. Her projects included exploring the ways in which young children use touch and gesture interactions with mobile devices, first responders' use of mobile devices during emergency evacuations, and modeling inquiry behaviors on mobile devices.
Regina is the Co-Creator of Black Women Talk Tech, the largest membership organization of black women tech entrepreneurs and the only conference designed for that community. This collective has a unique understanding of the challenges faced in the technology ecosystem, but also of the advantages they can bring. Its mission is to identify, support and encourage black women to build the next billion dollar business. Regina has been named to the 100 Most Powerful Women by Entrepreneur Magazine and Top Ten Women in Tech by Essence Magazine.
Regina Gwynn launched her first tech startup in 2014 with TresseNoire, a Beauty Tech Startup that empowers women of color to celebrate their textured hair with a personalized beauty routine that works. Its virtual beauty coach takes the guesswork out of finding the right natural hair products & services by matching your individual hair profile to a beauty regimen designed by experts (so you can get the best twist out or the perfect wash n go style the first time, every time!). This innovative product is currently in private beta.
Regina started her career in the Product Development Executive Training program at Federated Department Stores (now Macy’s Inc.), and successfully launched several exclusive brands during her tenure. After graduating from the Kellogg School of Management with her MBA, Regina was a management consultant with the Monitor Group (now Monitor/Deloitte Consulting) and worked with clients within the beauty, media and healthcare industries. She was then tapped to lead marketing at The Apparel Group, where she built the department from scratch and launched the company’s first ecommerce site for its signature brand, Foxcroft Collection.
Regina loves to travel, dance and watch football (Go Giants?!). She’s on the Cabinet for Black Entrepreneurship for the City of New York, and a former Board Member of BRAG, a nonprofit for diverse retail professionals & Rising Tide Capital, an entrepreneur development program based in Jersey City, NJ.
“A girl should be two things: Classy & Fabulous.” – Coco Chanel
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