This document profiles 10 Black women working in computer science and technology fields, including their job titles, employers, educational backgrounds, and brief descriptions of their work. The women hold a variety of roles such as software engineer, founder, manager, and researcher for companies including Google, Apple, Slack, and more. They earned degrees from schools like UC Berkeley, North Carolina State University, and Duke University.

1. Black Women
in Computer Science

2. Title: Software engineer at Google
Inside her work: Tsion Behailu works on the
Android partner engineering team at Google.
Prior to joining Google, she was an intern at
Groupon, where she automated the collection
of page-performance metrics for the SEO
team, wrote clients for various external APIs
(application programming interfaces) and
pulled data for application deployment. She
earned a Bachelor of Science in computer
science from the University of California,
Berkeley.

3. Title: Founder of INTech Foundation Inc.;
user-experience engineer at Apple
Inside her work: Khalia Braswell is a user-
experience engineer at Apple and also
the founder of INTech Camp for Girls in
North Carolina, whose mission is to
inform and inspire girls to innovate in the
technology industry. After earning her
bachelor’s in computer science from
North Carolina State University, she went
on to a master’s program in human-
computer interaction from the University
of North Carolina at Charlotte. Follow her
on Twitter.

4. Title: Senior software engineer at Google
Inside her work: Bernadette A. Carter works as
a technical lead and manager at Google
Plus and holds more than 25 patents. In
addition to innovation, she has a passion
for encouraging others to pursue STEM-
related (science, technology, engineering
and math) fields. To that end, she serves as
a TV-script adviser as part of Google’s CS
in Media initiative, which aims to end
damaging stereotypes associated with
computer science. She is also an active
member of /dev/color and enjoys mentoring
the next generation of software engineers.

5. Title: Senior engineering program manager,
user research infrastructure, at Google
Inside her work: Clennita Justice is a
veteran at Google; she has been
there for over a decade. She was
hired by the tech giant to launch
Google e-books (now Google Play
Books). Now she focuses on research
and product excellence to make the
right product for the right user. Justice
earned a Bachelor of Science in
computer science from the University
of California, Berkeley, and a master’s
in computer science at Howard
University.

6. Title: Application engineer at Slack
Inside her work: Audrei Drummond currently
works as a backend engineer at Slack on
the Enterprise Grid (Slack for very large
customers) team. Prior to joining Slack, she
was a full stack engineer at Redfin, building
tools and features to help real estate
agents and sellers get through the selling
process more easily. She earned her
undergraduate degree in electrical and
computer engineering and computer
science from Duke University, and her
master’s in computer science and
engineering from the University of
Washington.

7. Title: Co-founder of Women of Color in Tech Chat
Inside her work: Christina Morillo is widely known
as the co-founder of the Women of Color in Tech
Chat on Twitter and creator of the open-
source #WOCinTech stock photos seen all over
the web. Beyond her social media recognition,
Morillo has over 15 years of experience in
information security, identity and access
management, privacy and insider-threat
management. Her résumé includes the position
of vice president of technology and information
risk at Morgan Stanley. She earned an Associate
of Science in computer network administration
from Keiser University and a Bachelor of
Science in information technology from American
Intercontinental University. Follow her on Twitter.

8. Title: Robotics research scientist at Duke University
Inside her work: Victoria Nneji spearheads a new
Ph.D. program at Duke University that focuses on
robotics, autonomous transportation and the
importance of human influence in design. The
Nigerian native has a passion for education,
advocating for girls to pursue engineering and
mathematics in college and career. The Anita Borg
scholar earned her bachelor’s degree in applied
mathematics from Columbia University and her
master’s degree in engineering management from
Duke. Explore a day in the life of Nnegi’s career by
downloading her Careers With Code Expedition.

9. Title: Information technology project manager at Chicago
Transit Authority
Inside her work: Jamila Parham leads both
application development and operational
improvement efforts for the Program
Management and Technology division at the
Chicago Transit Authority. Prior to joining the
CTA, Parham was a project manager for a BMC
Software Premier Partnering consulting firm.
Parham received a Bachelor of Science in
computer graphics and motion design from
DePaul University and a Master of Information
Systems in project management from Keller
Graduate School of Management. In 2016 she
was featured as one of Verizon’s 10 brilliant men
and women breaking stereotypes in their
professions. Follow her on Twitter.

10. Title: Founder of IncluDe Software
Inside her work: Kristen Ransom holds many
titles as a wife, mother and CEO. She founded
her software development company, IncluDe,
with the goal of providing graphically stunning
digital design and development services to
minority- and women-owned businesses. Prior to
starting IncluDe, Ransom used her love for user-
centered design at a variety of companies to
develop both hardware and software products fit
for an increasingly diverse world. At Harley-
Davidson, for instance, she worked on foot peg,
handlebar and seat design for bikes geared
toward smaller female riders. She earned a
Bachelor of Science in human-factors
engineering from Tufts University. Follow her
on Twitter.

11. Title: Software engineer at Google
Inside her work: Bria Sullivan is a software
engineer at Google in the Venice Beach,
Calif., office. She got into engineering
almost by happenstance. Having not been
exposed to engineering growing up, and as
the first in her family to attend college,
Sullivan picked her major at random while
applying for colleges and found a passion
for programming at California Polytechnic
State University, where she earned her
bachelor’s degree. Prior to joining Google,
she landed two software-engineering
internships at Microsoft. Follow her
on Twitter.