Dr. Jamika D. Burge is an authority on research and programming that investigates the intersectionality of Black women and girls in computing, which led her to co-found blackcomputeHER.org (pronounced ‘black computer’), an organization dedicated to supporting computational thinking, design thinking, and workforce development for Black women and girls in computing+tech. She has served as CEO and Board President since 2022, and under her leadership, blackcomputeHER has raised almost $2MM (in 2 years) in capital for delivering impact through blackcomputeHER programming. Dr. Burge serves on the advisory board for the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT) (since 2015), the Virginia Tech Alumni Advisory Board for the Computer Science Department (since 2017); the Friends of Technology Advisory Board (Advisors to the President), at Grambling State University (since 2019); and the Center for Inclusive Computing, at Northeastern University (since 2020). She is a graduate of Fisk University and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. In addition to serving as a research and industry practitioner, she has also been a computer science professor at several HBCU’s, including Spelman College, North Carolina A&T State University, and Howard University. Since 2020, she has served on the National Academy of Science Committee on Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech, which delivered the report, Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech (2022).
