Session: The Ultimate Unicorns – Research on Black Women in STEM
Dr. Fay Cobb Payton is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Division of Computer and Network Systems which is in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). At the NSF, she is working with a group of leaders on programs involving Computer Science for All, Research Practice Partnerships, Computer Science Education, Broadening Participation and others. She is also a Full Professor (with Tenure) of Information Technology/Systems at North Carolina State University and was named a University Faculty Scholar for her leadership in turning research into solutions to society’s most pressing issues.
She is a workshop facilitator, speaker and consultant. She received the 2017 PhD Project Hall of Fame, 2016 North Carolina Technology Association Tech Educator of the Year, and 2013 National Coalition of Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) Undergraduate Mentoring Awards. As an American Council on Education Fellow, she worked on issues of academic review, interdisciplinary graduate research and education, and institutional economic and community impact.
Dr. Payton’s research interests include healthcare IT/informatics and disparities; data management/science, social media use among the millennial and under-represented groups; intersectionality; racial, gender and ethnic identities in online communities; broadening participation in IT/computing and STEM education and workforce participation, and the influence of racial, class and gender identities on health information seeking and content creation. She is the founder director of @myhealthimpact, a social network experience that focuses on health disparities and social media technology interventions. She leads a team focused on access and availability of computer science high school curricula among underrepresented groups (changecomputerscience.org).
She has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference publications and book chapters. Her research has been published and/or is forthcoming in the Journal of STEM Education Research and Innovation, Communications of the ACM, INROADS, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Technology & People, IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, Information Systems Journal, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Health Care Management Science, Telemedicine and eHealth, just to name a few. She is often the speaker, consultant and/or panelist for corporate career development and leadership programs in corporate and academic initiatives. She has appeared on CBS Radio Network, Sunrise America, Financial Review and others to discuss tech inclusion and under-representation.
She earned a Ph.D. in Information & Decision Systems (with a specialty in Health Care Systems) from Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining academe, she worked in corporate IT and consulting at IBM, Ernst & Young/Cap Gemini and Time, Inc. She earned a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BA in Accounting (with minor in Mathematics) from Clark Atlanta University. She also has a MBA from Clark Atlanta University.
http://cobbpayton.com, @DrFCP – Twitter