RII-Track 4 - Experiencing The Matrix of Power Dynamics For Undergraduate And Graduate Black Women In Computing to Understand their Intersectional Experiences

了解黑人女性在计算机领域的经历，她们同时经历种族主义和性别歧视，可以提供更有效地帮助黑人女性的见解。这项研究将研究黑人女性在计算机科学（CS）教育和计算方面的独特视角，包括黑人女性在各种计算空间（学术、专业、个人等）中所经历的考验和成功。此外，本研究将探讨公正和公平的方法来沟通这些经验，CS教育工作者和黑人妇女社区以外的人。该奖学金将在佐治亚理工学院的星座计算公平中心进行，与国际公认的计算机科学教育公平研究人员合作。该奖学金将为PI和一名研究生提供培训，学习如何设计、制定和评估更公平的计算空间，从而更好地支持黑人女性。通过将这些方法与PI描述黑人女性通过其生活经历提供的独特计算视角的方法相结合，拟议的研究将发展理论和实践，可用于创造空间，扩大和深化黑人女性在该领域的参与，使国家更接近全民计算机科学。该奖学金将为PI和一名研究生提供培训，以了解黑人女性在计算机领域遇到的权力动态矩阵，以及她们获得并发展并坚持的代理形式。这项工作将侧重于研究黑人女性在不同计算机环境中不同阶段的经历，以阐明黑人女性在计算机领域同时与种族主义和性别歧视作斗争时的立场。这项研究将确定设计原则，可以应用于创造更公平的空间，更包容，更欢迎和支持黑人女性。最后，本研究将探索以真实地描绘和尊重经验的复杂性和范围的方式交流这些经验的方法的可行性，同时也发展了围绕促进公平和持续参与计算的同理心和行动。在计算中阐明动力矩阵的方法学的发展将对PI的研究项目产生革命性的影响。该奖学金将产生有助于该领域更好地理解其他边缘化群体经验的新理论，为这些群体设计公平空间的新原则，以及将这些经验传达给该领域内外其他人的非传统方法。拟议的项目将在交叉计算和计算教育公平领域的领导者之间建立合作，并提供可操作的见解，以支持PI所在机构的PI部门创建和制定更公平的计算空间的承诺。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Understanding the experiences of Black women in computing, who experience racism and sexism at the same time, provides insights that can help support Black women more effectively. This research will study Black women’s unique perspectives in Computer Science (CS) education and computing, including the trials and triumphs experienced as Black women navigate various computing spaces (academic, professional, personal, etc.). Additionally, this research will explore just and equitable approaches to communicating those experiences to CS educators and those outside of the community of Black women. This fellowship will take place at the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing at Georgia Tech, working with an internationally recognized researcher in equity in CS education. The fellowship will provide training to the PI and a graduate student in approaches to designing, enacting, and assessing more equitable computing spaces that can better support Black women. By coupling those approaches with the PI’s approach to describing the unique perspective into computing that Black women provide through their lived experiences, the proposed research will develop theory and practice that can be used to create spaces that broaden and deepen the engagement of Black women in the field, bringing the nation closer to CS For All.This fellowship will provide training for the PI and a graduate student to understand the matrix of power dynamics that Black women encounter in computing as well as the forms of agency they acquire and develop to persist. The work will focus on examining the experiences of Black women in different computing contexts at various stages to articulate a Black women’s standpoint as they contend with racism and sexism, simultaneously, in computing. This research will identify design principles that can be applied to create more equitable spaces that are more inclusive, welcoming, and supportive for Black women. Finally, this research will explore the affordances of approaches to communicate those experiences in ways that authentically portray and honor the complexities and range of experiences while also developing empathy for and action around promoting equity and sustained engagement in computing. The development of methodologies for articulating the matrix of power dynamics in computing will be transformative for the PI’s research program. The fellowship will generate new theories that can help the field better understand the experiences of other marginalized groups, new principles for designing equitable spaces for these groups, and non-traditional approaches for communicating those experiences to others inside and outside of the field. The proposed project will establish a collaboration between leaders in the fields of intersectional computing and equity in computing education, as well as provide actionable insights that will support the commitment to create and enact more equitable computing spaces taken up by the PI’s department at the PI’s home institution.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.