Hannah Mendoza and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan coordinate the @WomeninStat Twitter account and offer tips for curating and managing its rotation and engagement.
R ladies
Gabriela de Queiroz
Gabriela de Queiroz initially studied electrical engineering but fell in love with statistics after spending a semester in the US. She went on to complete her master’s in epidemiology and then became a data scientist, intrigued by how statistics and computer science were being used together in industry. Her great passion for sharing knowledge and connecting with people inspired her to create R-Ladies, a group that focuses on bringing more diversity into the R community. She recently started AI Inclusive, whose mission is to increase the representation and participation of gender minority groups in artificial intelligence.
Stephanie C. Hicks
Stephanie Hicks began her college career majoring in chemical engineering but learned that what she loved about chemistry was mathematics. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the department of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-founder of R-Ladies Baltimore, a local chapter of a global organization to promote gender diversity in the R programming community. She is also working on creating a children’s book about women in statistics and data science.