Girls Dream Code: Building Belonging In STEM with Victoria Kyereme

About this episode

Victoria Kyereme discusses her journey in building a welcoming environment in STEM through Girls Dream Code.

Imagine a classroom where every question is welcome, the instructor looks like you, and code feels less like a wall and more like a door. That’s the world Victoria Kyereme is building with Girls Dream Code, and it started with her own winding path from pre-pharmacy to computer science—and the stubborn belief that belonging should not be a lottery. We talk about the moments that shaped her: arriving in Minnesota from Ghana, navigating majors without a roadmap, and finding that first programmi...

People in this episode

Host: Altreisha Foster

Guest: Victoria Kyereme

Topics covered

• STEM
• belonging
• education
• computer science
• diversity
• coding

Keywords

• Girls Dream Code
• STEM education
• computer science
• belonging
• diversity in tech

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Minnesota, Ghana

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