Dr. Jane Margolis is an Emerita Senior Researcher in Education at UCLA. She has co-authored award-winning books about computing education as a window into how inequalities and segregation in schools are produced and reproduced: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (MIT, 2002) and Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing (MIT, 2008 and 2017). Recently, along with lead author Dr. Jean Ryoo, together they published a graphic novel, Power On! (MIT, 2022) and its Spanish translation !Conectados!, for middle and high school students that translates the findings of previous research into a medium engaging for students, parents, and families. Margolis was the founding Director of the UCLA CS Equity Project. In 2016, she was awarded the Obama White House Champion of Change award, and in 2023 she received a LAUSD Community Partnership Award.
