Dr. Nicki Washington

Oct 4, 2022

When Are We Gonna Have a Serious Conversation About How Unserious (and Problematic) SIGCSE Is?

Last week, I read a tweet that noted how absurd the entire peer-review process is, especially given one’s “peers” usually lack in some way when it comes to assessing one’s work. This was made so apparent (once again) in the 2023 Special Interest Group in CS Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium…

Cs Education

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Cs Education

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Published in Momentum

·Mar 24, 2022

As a Black Woman, Microaggressions Have Never Been a “Game”

This week, Black women have either watched (or caught the highlights of) an undeniably overqualified Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson be subjected to the outright racism and violence that we all know too well from white men and women as she was forced to sit through her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing…

Microaggressions

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Microaggressions

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Mar 21, 2022

What Are The Limits of Solidarity?

Like many people, I thought the summer of 2020 was going to be a watershed moment for both the country and the computing discipline. Following the horrific murder of George Floyd and the groundswell of support for Black Lives Matter, it seemed like people were finally ready to admit what…

Black Women

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Black Women

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Dec 11, 2018

Facebook, Tech Diversity, and the Privilege that Blinds

If you really want to know what people think about diversity and inclusion, just read the comments section of any related Internet article. This was definitely the case when news broke of Mark Luckie’s post that Facebook (like just about every company in Silicon Valley) has a serious diversity problem…

Diversity In Tech

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Facebook, Tech Diversity, and the Privilege that Blinds

Diversity In Tech

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