Empowering the Next Generation: Irene Duah-Kessie on Rise In STEM

Empowering the Next Generation: Irene Duah-Kessie on Rise In STEM

🔎 Episode Overview In this spe­cial Pod­casthon Week episode of Math Sci­ence His­to­ry, I sit down with Irene Duah-Kessie, the founder and exec­u­tive direc­tor of Rise In STEM (RiseinSTEM.ca). Rise In STEM is a non­prof­it ded­i­cat­ed to cre­at­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for under­rep­re­sent­ed stu­dents in sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, engi­neer­ing, and math­e­mat­ics. Irene shares her inspir­ing jour­ney, the impact of men­tor­ship, and how her

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Helping the marginalized to Rise in STEM

Helping the marginalized to Rise in STEM

IT’S GIVING TUESDAY!! Sev­er­al years ago, I want­ed to start a char­i­ty and call it Rise in STEM. And so, I pur­chased the URL, and kind of start­ed it. Then, life got in the way. And so, I put the char­i­ty on the back­burn­er. The URL www.RiseInSTEM.com sat in my queue for a year, and I did­n’t want to sell

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