Senior Research Associate
Kapor Center for Social Impact
Frieda McAlear, (Inupiaq) MRes, is the Senior Research Associate at the Kapor Center, where she brings her skills as a social science researcher and her passion for working with and for marginalized and underrepresented communities, at the Kapor Center.
In 2018, Frieda co-founded the Women of Color in Computing Collaborative (WOCCC) and in 2019 she became a lead Principal Investigator in the Seeding Innovation: Expanding Computer Science for Native American Girls project, a partnership between the WOCCC and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES).
My Sessions
Computer science education has often focused on how innovation and technology are essential knowledge bases that Native/indigenous and racialized students need to succeed in the Future of Work, despite the devastating effects of computing technologies, batteries, metal mining, and e-waste on the health of indigenous lands, waters, and air. But can culturally revitalizing computer science […]