Our Mission

SSWOC is dedicated to enabling Women of Color to fully pursue careers in STEM.

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Our mission is to achieve professional liberation, the freedom to pursue one’s professional goals to the extent of one’s own aptitude without externally imposed limitations, for all women, particularly those from historically underrepresented populations.  Using cultural, structural and disciplinary sources of authority to produce new knowledge, we seek to:

  • Develop a community to effect radical social change in the academy
  • Enhance self-efficacy and personal attributes that lend themselves to empowerment
  • Provide resources for professional development for the advancement of women
  • Create and disseminate new knowledge informed by race:gender intersectionality and intersectional approaches to support and advance women in STEM