by Tara Robertson | Nov 1, 2021 | Blog
Mentors share advice, sponsors share opportunities. Both are important and useful, but sponsorship accelerates careers. Underrepresented people are over-mentored and under-sponsored. In the last couple of weeks I’ve had several firsts: my first article in...
by Tara Robertson | Jul 25, 2021 | Blog
I was delighted to speak at Data Science by Design’s Creator Conference. DSxD is a community of researchers, educators, artists, computer scientists who conference organizers described as curious, dynamic, creative and interdisciplinary. I chose to talk about...
by Tara Robertson | Apr 20, 2021 | Blog
I enjoyed being a guest on Seed&Spark’s first monthly office hours session where Stefanie Monge, Lara McLeod and I talked about distributing diversity, equity and inclusion work across organizations. Here’s some of the work that I mentioned: Megan...
by Tara Robertson | Apr 2, 2021 | Blog
Edit: Thanks Tim Smith for letting me know the ChartHop website now shows that this is all an April Fools’ day prank. I fell for it. Kudos to the commitment to write a 13 page fake report and for your social team’s convincing response. I first learned...
by Tara Robertson | Mar 11, 2021 | Blog
Many people have said that while we’ve all been in the same storm with COVID, we’ve been in our own boats. People have had very different experiences during the past year, based on their gender, race, geographic location and more. Today Statistics Canada...
by Tara Robertson | Mar 5, 2021 | Blog
The recording for the talk I did for Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Digital Pedagogy Webinar Series is up. Here’s the video and the slides. I submitted the title and abstract 6 months ago and as I wrote the talk I realized that the dichotomy of inside/outside...
