• It’s Neurodiversity Awareness Month Pick up a Good Read

    April is Neurodiversity Awareness Month and what better way to celebrate than to cuddle up with a good book! Built By Girls teamed up with Understood.org to come up with a list of books we love.

  • How young is too young to learn about sex? How Olivia Rodrigo ignited a fight for early education

    Olivia Rodrigo’s team reportedly stopped abortion funds from distributing free emergency contraceptives on tour because her audience was deemed ‘too young’ to receive such items. According to sex education advocacy groups that spoke to Meredith Clark, this misconception is just one of many barriers toward a quality education

  • 9 Inspiring Books About The Environment Climate Change

    Although every day should have at least one moment to appreciate the Earth, whether it’s in a walk along the park, or just appreciating the breeze while you’re walking to work, we should always be thankful for the world we live in. But, if you’re anything like us, life might get in the way of …

  • Space diversity initiative builds steam with new leadership and K-12 focused National Space Day

    A growing effort to attract more women and people of color into the space industry has shared some of its first results and a new occasion to rally around: National Space Day, May 3, when thousands of students will learn that not only can they do space stuff, but they really should start now. Space Workforce 2030 is a joint effort by the Space Foundation and Aerospace Corporation, amounting to basically a promise that they — and all their 29 company partners as of now — will transparently report the demographics of their workplaces, hiring and recruitment, and work together to identify ways to bring a more diverse crowd to the notoriously homogeneous space industry. The effort also now has an executive director in Melanie Stricklan, formerly of Slingshot Space (and the Air Force), who is now leading the organization full time.

  • Women in AI: Kristine Gloria tells women to enter the field and 'follow your curiosity'

    To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved -- and overdue -- time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. Kristine Gloria formerly led the Aspen Institute's Emergent and Intelligent Technologies Initiative -- the Aspen Institute being the D.C.-headquartered think tank focused on values-based leadership and policy expertise. Gloria holds a PhD in cognitive science and a Master's in media studies, and her past work includes research at MIT’s Internet Policy Research Initiative, the San Francisco-based Startup Policy Lab and the Center for Society, Technology and Policy at UC Berkeley.

  • I Applied to Be a NASA Astronaut. You Can Too

    NASA is opening up the books to recruit what could be one of its most diverse classes ever.