Founder, Speaker, Social Strategist, & Diversity Analyst

Just days until SXSW kicks off in Austin - including an speech by Edward Snowden. We FEATURE technology maven Shireen Mitchell who will be blogging and tweeting from the conference. Shireen Mitchell is the Director of Web and Interactive Media at the Women's Media Center. Shireen has decades of internet and technology experience; she has advocated on behalf of women and girls within the tech industry since 1997. She founded Digital Sisters Inc., the first organization that focused on the issues of digital media and technology as it pertained to women and girls of color.

Professor; Co-founder & Co-editor; Legal Advocacy Consultant

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Barak Obama and the AIPAC conference continues nearby, we FEATURE Noura Erakat, expert on the Palestinian-Israel conflict, US Middle East foreign policy, and international human rights in the Middle East. She is a human rights attorney and activist, the Freedman Teaching Fellow at Temple Law School, and the US-based Legal Advocacy Consultant for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights.

Dean, School of Engineering

To mark Women's History Month, we highlight the work being done to increase the number of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). We FEATURE Dr. Jenna Carpenter, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. Her research focuses on integrated science, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curricula at the undergraduate level and the success of women students and faculty in STEM fields. She is President-Elect of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, which is a national professional organization which works to transform the culture in engineering education to support the success of women.