Breaking the Barriers for Black Girls in STEM with Cynthia Chapple
Innovation City
English - July 19, 2022 08:30 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsBusiness Education innovation miami business startups stlouis venturecafe Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Today's guest is Cynthia Chapple, founder and CEO of Black Girls Do STEM, an organization offering exploration of STEM career pathways to middle and high school black girls in St. Louis. In this episode, Cynthia sits down with the team to discuss her journey as a black woman in STEM, what her organization is doing to close the gap between women and STEM, and what institutions should be doing to better serve our youth.
“Schools need to become places of innovation, places of noise, and chaos, because that is what learning looks like.” -Cynthia Chapple