From Disparity to Opportunity: Addressing the Gender Divide in STEM Fields, Sept. 13

Please join us on Friday, September 13 at 12 p.m. for Disparity to Opportunity: Addressing the Gender Divide in STEM Fields. This event will be held via Zoom and will  feature Ms. Faye O’Brien and Ms. Judy Marouf who will speak on their work with the Nvolve Scholars Program.

Please join us here!
Meeting ID: 892 6458 6308
Passcode: 267961

Faye O’Brien has been a mentor and role model to many NOVA female STEM students since 2016, providing guidance and training to selected scholars in preparation for transitioning from the classroom to the boardroom. She is the founder and director of the Nvolve Scholars Program. See www.nvolveme.org to learn more.

Judy Marouf is a spring 2024 NOVA graduate and the outgoing president of NOVA’s Women In STEM Club. She is also recipient of a 2024 Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, and a current Nvolve Scholar.

Faye and Judy will present published data, analysis and their experience of the hidden expectations and challenges that female STEM graduates are likely to encounter in the workplace and how programs like Nvolve can help overcome them. The presentation will be followed by question and answer session.

Submitted by:
Matthew “Tank” McCarl, AN-CCOR, MMcCarl@nvcc.edu