press. 2000-2012

2012

Speaking about Youth APPLab’s 1st year with the App Inventor Team.

2011

***Atlanta Post 9/27/2011 Article – Black Tech Entrepreneurs Share Lessons from Their Journeys

***Howard University Magazine Fall 2011 Cover Article

***Dr. Michael Eric Dyson’s Radio Show - http://dysonshow.org/?p=4440 (marker 22:30)

***Black Enterprise TV: Our World – A Slice of Life

***HASTAC: COUNTDOWN TO DML COMPETITION WINNERS’ SHOWCASE: DAY 28 WITH YOUTH APPLAB talks about Leshell Hatley and her teaching African-American youth about technology, with technology.  This awesome article discusses Youth APPLab, Myles & Ayesha, and her Robotics in DC project winning the 2011 Google RISE Award. (Feb. 4, 2011)

***Leshell Hatley appears in the February 2011 issue of Black Enterprise (STEM Spotlight – “GAME TIME: What will it take for Black students to excel in math and science?” for her work with Uplift, Inc., Myles & Ayesha, and Youth APPLab.  Thanks to Marcia M. Talbert for interviewing me.

2010

***Patriot’s Training Center - 2nd Annual Video Gaming Conference December 2010.  Thanks for the invitation to give a workshop.  I had a ball!

Guest Lecturer on Game Design

Another article about the event

***Myles & Ayesha, Uplift, Inc. and I appeared on Blackweb20.com in October in an article featuring The Myles & Ayesha Black Inventors Match Game!  Thanks to Black Web 2.0 for the feature.  I totally appreciate it!

***Guest Blogger at Promise Summer Success Institute (SSI).  Thanks to Dr. Renetta Tull for the invitation.

***My Views about the presence of African-Americans at DC Week 2010 (summer 2010). Thanks to Original Najeemafor interviewing me.

***Uplift, Inc. wins 2010 Digital Media Competition. May 2010. Thanks to the MacArthur Foundation for Spotlighting Youth APPLaband allowing me to share our story.

2009

***Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. – Founders Day 2010 Article on Alumni Roundup. Thanks to Bryndan Moore, co-founder, for given me the opportunity to ‘speak’ on the sorority’s behalf.

***2009 Google Anita Borg Scholar – Thanks to the Scholarship Committee at Google for selecting me!

2000

My students and I at North Star Academy (in Newark, NJ) embarked on a few animation projects.  Aside from learning how to create animations, we researched African-American animators and cartoonists.  The African-American Literature Book Club caught wind of the project (to this day I have no idea how) and posted our progress at the time on their website.  (Scroll to the middle of the page)