The Digital Divide: The Intersections of Race and Technology

By Carly Van Syckle

About the Author
Carly Van Syckle is a Senior at the University at Albany double majoring in psychology and political science with a concentration in equality and inequality studies. She also just started work on her Master of Public Administration at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs. Van Syckle completed an internship at the Rockefeller Institute’s Center for Law and Policy Solutions. She has presented research on “The Lasting Effects of Institutionalized Discrimination” at the Institutions and Societies Conference at Rockefeller College and the New York State Political Science Association Conference. She spent a summer in Washington, D.C interning for the National Association of Home Builders where she lobbied members of Congress. Outside of the classroom, Van Syckle volunteers her time at the Center for Leadership and Service at the University at Albany. As part of the Buffalo Project, she will be working on an independent study titled, “Diversity and Cultural Competency.”