Join the Inspiring Leaders Profiles Database
The WCEC Inspiring Leaders Profile Database aims to highlight the exceptional achievements and experiences of women of color in engineering. It serves as a resource for celebrating their contributions, empowering them in their fields, and providing opportunities for organizations to find diversity.
Highlighting WOC Engineers
The creation of this database serves a crucial purpose in highlighting the exceptional work of women of color in engineering to diversify the field, and connect collaborators to women of color in engineering to support career advancement.
Our Goal
The goal of curating and highlighting the exceptional work of women of color is to amplify the contributions, expertise, and experiences in a field where they have historically been underrepresented.
A Resource for Organizations
The database will not only serve as a celebration of the achievements and as a tool of empowerment to diversify the field of engineering, but also as a resource for organizations to find speakers and connect individuals with networking opportunities.
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On-Demand Webinars
Leveraging Your Strengths for Success
Harnessing Strengths as Women of Color in Engineering
Coping and Living Mindfully as Women of Color in Engineering
Fireside Chat with Ari Melenciano
Upcoming WCEC Member Events
The WCEC shares numerous professional activities offered by our member organizations. Member organizations are committed to creating a supportive, encouraging, and inclusive environment for WOC in engineering. Find out more about their events and register to attend!
CoNECD
San Antonio, TX, February 9 - 11, 2025
The only conference dedicated to all the diverse groups that comprise our engineering and computing workforce. The vision of the CoNECD (pronounced, “connected”) Conference is to provide a forum for exploring current research and practices to enhance diversity and inclusion of all underrepresented populations in the engineering and computing professions including gender identity and expression, race and ethnicity, disability, veterans, LGBTQ+, 1st generation and socio-economic status.
The WCEC will be presenting at CoNECD! We look forward to connecting with you!
NSBE 2025 Annual Convention
Chicago, IL, March 5 - 9, 2025
The 2025 Annual Convention is a four-day event with an anticipated 15,000 attendees, 400-plus Career Fair exhibitors and 5,000-plus NSBE members and others at the Opening, General and Closing Sessions. During the Annual Convention, the Society conducts organizational business, elects national and regional leaders, holds competitions and provides professional and personal development, networking and celebratory activities.
Members of the WCEC team will be present and look forward to connecting!
ADVANCE Equity in STEM Community Convening
San Juan, PR, June 1 - 4, 2025
Since 2019, the NSF-funded ADVANCE Equity in STEM Community Convening, hosted by WEPAN, has served as the convening for NSF ADVANCE grantees in a format that facilitates engagement with change agents within and beyond the NSF ADVANCE community. The ADVANCE EiSCC brings together a variety of change makers from higher education, professional societies, industry, government, and non-profits in an engaged exchange of knowledge, resources, and support to drive systemic change in STEM.
Attendees have an opportunity to share new research findings and exchange resources; brainstorm strategies; collaborate in novel ways; learn about avenues for funding; and demonstrate effective programs and interventions for greater collective impact.
Members of the WCEC team will be present and look forward to connecting!
What is the Women of Color in Engineering Collaborative?
The Women of Color in Engineering Collaborative (WCEC) was created in 2021 as a partnership network of professional engineering societies and STEM-based companies. The WCEC is working to address systemic barriers that prohibit equitable work environments for women engineers of color.
Since its inception, the WCEC has grown to 29 organizations, created a shared vision and mission, and developed a strategic plan that will guide our efforts over the next few years. Thank you for your interest and support of our work. We hope that you will engage with the WCEC as we begin implementing the strategies aimed at tackling the major challenges facing women of color (WOC) in the engineering workplace.
Want to Get Involved?
Are you interested in having your organization become a member of the WCEC? Read our membership guidelines and fill out an application. Learn more.
While we don’t offer membership to individuals, we do want to grow the WCEC community! Soon we will begin collecting profiles of amazing WOC engineers for our Inspiring Leaders database. We are also collecting resources from our member organizations to place in our online Resource Center. We will be using this newsletter to get the word out as these activities get underway. Please share the WCEC with your network and invite others to sign up for our newsletter through the Contact Us form on the WCEC website.
