Khalia Braswell is an American
computer scientist, educator, and technologist. She is the founder and former
executive director of INTech Camp for Girls, created to encourage girls of color to pursue learning about technology. Braswell earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in education, focusing on math, science, and technology from
Temple University
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then calle ...
in Philadelphia.
Biography
Khalia Braswell was born in
Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and moved to
Charlotte
Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...
when she was in the second grade.
She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in computer science at
North Carolina State University and her Master of Science degree in information technology at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte or simply Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina. UNC Charlotte offers 24 doctoral, 66 master's, and 79 bachelor's degree programs through nine colle ...
.
In 2014, Braswell created INTech Camp for Girls, a program that aims to inspire girls of color to pursue careers in technology.
She moved to California after graduate school to work as an engineer at
Apple
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. She resigned in 2018 and returned to Charlotte to run INTech full-time.
Relinquishing her role as the executive director of INTech, Braswell began using her expertise as a researcher at Crunchbase.
Awards
Braswell received the Walker’s Legacy Women of Power award in 2018 and was included in The Root's 2018 list of 100 Most Influential African Americans.
See also
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Alicia Nicki Washington
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Timnit Gebru
Timnit Gebru ( am, ትምኒት ገብሩ; born 1983/1984) is an American computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and data mining. She is an advocate for diversity in technology and co-founder of Black in AI, a community of Black resea ...
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Joy Buolamwini
Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is a Ghanaian-American-Canadian computer scientist and digital activist based at the MIT Media Lab. Buolamwini introduces herself as a poet of code, daughter of art and science. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League ...
References
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Living people
American women computer scientists
University of North Carolina alumni
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
African-American computer scientists
21st-century African-American people
Temple University alumni
People from Rocky Mount, North Carolina
21st-century African-American women