Frieda McAlear is the Senior Research Associate, 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. She has nearly a decade of experience managing projects, developing evaluation and research methodology and building nonprofit technology capacity with socially progressive organizations in the Bay Area, Europe and Southern Africa.
Designing For Intersectional Inclusion With Frieda McAlear
In this episode, Melinda Briana Epler, Founder & CEO of Change Catalyst, and Frieda McAlear, Senior Research Associate at the Kapor Center, talk about “Designing For Intersectional Inclusion.” Frieda described what we can do to redress the lack of Native American representation in Computer Science while applying an intersectional lens. She’ll also share principles we can use in our workplaces and communities to improve inclusion.
Additional Resources
- Guide to Acknowledgment and Global Map of Indigenous People
- “Expanding Digital Pathways for Native Girls” by Frieda McAlear
- Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
- Intertribal Friendship House
- “Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy” by Gloria Ladson-Billings
- “Culturally responsive computing: A theory revisited” by Kimberly A. Scott, Kevin Clark & Kimberly Sheridan
- Leading With Empathy & Allyship Episode 3: “Supporting Indigenous Power, Leadership & Community” With Vanessa Roanhorse
Programs Supporting Native American & Indigenous People in Tech
- Learn more about Frieda McAlear’s work at the Kapor Center: Women of Color in Computing Research Collaborative and S.M.A.S.H program
- Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), led by Janetta Louise Johnson
- American Indian Science And Engineering Society and Expanding Computer Science Opportunities for Native Girls, co-led by Dr. Kathy DeerInWater
- Mescalero Apache Computer Science programs
- Compugirls
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The land acknowledgment process can begin a transformative process for people to be able to, first of all, acknowledge the histories that have happened on these territories. These histories, as I said, involve colonization and genocide of Native and Indigenous people here, but they also involve human trafficking and the bringing of other Indigenous people here. And imperialism has had people coming for use of resources here. There are multiple ways imperialism has created this. Start with the people’s land you are on is a way to ground the process of learning about and the erasure of Indigenous people in the world.
Learn more about the host and creator of Leading With Empathy & Allyship, Melinda Briana Epler.
