“It is difficult being a Latina and a woman in a field that is predominantly white and male. But we are making inroads,” Cecilia Aragón, the first Latina full professor at the School of Engineering at the Univ. of Washington, says WomensHistoryMonth
“There are very few people who look like me in this field,” explains Medalis Trelles, a 26-year-old software engineer currently working in Washington, D.C. “It's very easy to feel overwhelmed when everyone is male.”
She realized how little she knew about computers and coding when she tried to create a mobile app for her new dog walking business and didn’t know how. “I basically taught myself through a series of online courses, and community college courses,” explains Trelles. “I feel like right now I am implicitly being told that I don’t belong because there is no one like me in my company. Not many women like me are visible in tech. If we can have more and more women there, then we can feel that we belong there, that this is a natural path.”
“We have a lot more work to do,” said Aragón. “It is difficult being a Latina and a woman in a field that is predominantly white and male. But we are making inroads.” Aragón has done more than make inroads; she is a role model in the field. The recipient of multiple awards for her work in the field of Computer Science and Engineering, she's the director of theat the University of Washington and has created a visual augmentation system for helicopter pilots.
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