Internet2 recently announced the 2017 winners of their Gender Diversity Award and two of the recipients are from OIT! Courtney Fell, a learning experience designer, and Kerry Havens, an associate director for endpoint services and identity and access management, were both presented with Gender Diversity Awards at the Internet2 Global Summit in Washington, D.C., in late April.
The Gender Diversity Award was established in 2014 by the Internet2 community as part of a larger Gender Diversity Initiative, with the aim of improving gender diversity in the information technology field within research and education. According to a recent report by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, while women have reached parity with men among science and engineering degree recipients overall, they constitute disproportionately smaller percentages of employed scientists and engineers than they do of the U.S. population.
Internet2 is a non-profit, member-driven advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996. You can learn more about the 2017 Gender Diversity Award winners by reading this press release.
Congratulations Courtney and Kerry!
