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5 Questions Series
PIT-UN picks the brain of PIT trailblazers to learn how they are working to advance the field, the levers needed to get there, and where they think PIT is headed.
2021 Network Challenge Grantees
Arizona State University’s Bloomn
Principal investigator Jeremy Liu discusses how Bloomn, an online social impact innovation competition, community, and accelerator platform, provides immersive learning opportunities for students to advance the field of PIT.
Columbia-Lehman PIT Data Science Corps
Principal investigators Tian Zheng and Jennifer Laird discuss how PIT-DSC will diversify the data science career pipeline and the best methods for recruiting faculty to work on PIT projects.
University of Michigan’s Data Learning for Better Drinking Water in Small Utilities
Principal investigator Rebecca Hardin explains how her project will attract students interested in a career in PIT. Plus, she outlines how the project will serve as a road map for other PIT practitioners to embark on community-based projects.
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Career Launch Pad: Building a Cyber-Protection Apprenticeship
Principal investigator Justin M. Pelletier discusses the types of career transition and placement support needed to make the cybersecurity workforce more diverse. Plus, how his project will allow other institutions to create PIT apprenticeship programs.
William & Mary Cybersecurity
Awareness Initiative
Principal investigators Chon Abraham and Iria Giuffrida outline how the initiative will provide students from underprivileged backgrounds real-world learning experiences, and the ideal pathway for someone who wants to work in cybersecurity and pursue a career in PIT.
The George Washington University’s Ethical Tech Initiative of D.C.
GWU students Joseph Caputo, Jenna Fattah, and Christopher Frascella explain how their project provides access to justice technologies for underserved communities, and the clinical educational opportunities and internships/externships the program offers.
5 Questions With Fran Berman
Fran Berman is the director of public interest technology and Stuart Rice Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.