My Career as a Mosaic

woke, systems engineering, computing for good

Our field is one of constant change and upheaval

I worry that as a community we are not doing enough to empower our future peers to navigate and direct this change in positive ways. I worry that new developments will continue to uphold—possibly even reinforce—the structures and biases that serve to exclude and oppress people in underprivileged groups, not just within STEM and engineering, but in society as a whole. Throughout my career, I have repeatedly found an unwillingness to question the status quo, and I believe the only resolution to this is twofold: we need to establish a more diverse set of people in every subfield of computer science, and we need to empower STEM learners on ethical issues before they enter the field.