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，她们同时经历了种族主义和性别歧视，这提供了有助于更有效地支持黑人女性的见解。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)中经历的考验和胜利。此外，这项研究将探索公正和公平的方法，将这些经验传达给CS教育工作者和黑人妇女社区以外的人。这项奖学金将在佐治亚理工学院计算公平星座中心举行，与国际公认的CS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，培训他们如何设计、颁布和评估更公平的计算空间，以更好地支持黑人妇女。通过将这些方法与PI描述黑人女性通过其生活经验提供的独特视角进入计算的方法相结合，拟议的研究将开发可用于创建空间，扩大和深化黑人女性在该领域的参与的空间，使国家更接近CS。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领域遇到的权力动态矩阵以及她们获得和发展的持续存在的代理形式。这项工作将集中于研究黑人女性在不同计算环境中在不同阶段的经历，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的立场。这项研究将确定可以应用于创造更公平的空间的设计原则，这些空间对黑人女性更具包容性、更受欢迎和支持。最后，这项研究将探索以真实描述和尊重经验的复杂性和范围的方式来交流这些经验的方法的可承受力，同时也发展对促进公平和持续参与计算的共鸣和行动。在计算中阐明功率动力学矩阵的方法的发展将对PI的研究计划产生变革。研究金将产生新的理论，帮助外地更好地了解其他边缘化群体的经验，为这些群体设计公平空间的新原则，以及与外地内外其他人交流这些经验的非传统方法。拟议的项目将在跨部门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，以支持由PI的部门在PI的主场研究所占据的更公平的计算空间的承诺。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.