DIGERATIhttp://www.noiredigerati.com/digerati1/en-US2010-07-30T13:41:21ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.5 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Black Digerati: Ethiopia Hewitthttp://www.noiredigerati.com/digerati1/2010/7/18/black-digerati-ethiopia-hewitt.htmlMichael Lang2010-07-18T19:27:43ZIn case you're wondering, her real first name is definitely Ethiopia, just like the country located in the horn of Africa! Ethiopia Hewitt has been working in the field of web design and graphics for over five years. She has always had a talent for mathematics and a love for fashion and design. She pursued the former by studying for a mathematics degree from Spelman College. While at Spelman she explored her artistic interests by working as a production artist at an urban fashion]]>Black Digerati: Ejovi Nuwerehttp://www.noiredigerati.com/digerati1/2010/6/14/black-digerati-ejovi-nuwere.htmlMichael Lang2010-06-15T02:30:42ZBlack DigeratiEjovi Nuwere grew up in the impoverished Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. After watching a close friend gunned down as a teenager and his mother succumb to drugs, Ejovi began searching for an escape and found it in technology. By the age of 15 Ejovi had become a computer security professional working for an Internet Service Provider in Manhattan that he originally hacked in to! By age 21 he was already an accomplished security expert working for one of the world's major investment]]>Black Digerati: Dr. Enid Montaguehttp://www.noiredigerati.com/digerati1/2010/5/29/black-digerati-dr-enid-montague.htmlMichael Lang2010-05-29T20:38:06ZBlack DigeratiDr. Enid Montague is a human factors and ergonomics engineer, assistant professor and Anna Julia Cooper Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. For those of you who are wondering, Human Factors Engineering is the scientific discipline concerned with understanding the interaction between humans and other elements in a system, with the goal of enhanced performance, increased safety, and increased]]>Black Digerati: Andrea Grimeshttp://www.noiredigerati.com/digerati1/2010/4/1/black-digerati-andrea-grimes.htmlMichael Lang2010-04-01T11:39:22ZBlack DigeratiAndrea Grimes represents what our tagline is here at Noire Digerati, The Future Face of Technology! Andrea is a Ph.D. candidate in Human-Centered Computing at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech University. Her research lies within the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). A member of Associate Professor Beki Grinter's Work2Play Lab, Andrea's research involves studying aspects of human life to design technology that resonates with existing]]>Black Digerati: George T Hayeshttp://www.noiredigerati.com/digerati1/2010/3/2/black-digerati-george-t-hayes.htmlMichael Lang2010-03-02T12:22:31ZBlack DigeratiGeorge is currently a graduate student at the School of Information at UC Berkeley focusing on Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, and Information System Design. As an up and coming User Experience Designer and digital media artist, George currently works as a freelance User Experience Designer (UX Designer). In the past he worked for Neiman Group as a User Experience Architect and an Information Architect/User Experience Specialist at eCity Interactive in]]>Black Digerati: Jenna Worthamhttp://www.noiredigerati.com/digerati1/2010/3/2/black-digerati-jenna-wortham.htmlMichael Lang2010-03-02T11:50:57ZBlack DigeratiJenna is a technology reporter for the New York Times where she covers Web start-ups, mobile communication, digital culture and the local tech scene for the Bits blog. Her stories typically focus on novel ways consumers are using technology to enhance their daily lives along with emerging Internet-based business models and personalities shaping the start-up industry. Before she joined the New York Times back in 2008, she was a culture reporter for Wired.com and a freelance writer for Wire Magazine.]]>Black Digerati: Rodney O. Lain (R.I.P)http://www.noiredigerati.com/digerati1/2009/11/9/black-digerati-rodney-o-lain-rip.htmlMichael Lang2009-11-10T03:27:48ZAT&T Apple Black Digerati Cult of Mac iBrotha iPhone rodney O. LainLet me start by confessing that I am an Apple addict and I pretty much purchase close to every product they put out, except of course for the iPhone until its taken off the awful AT&T network! I digress. Anyway,  I recently read a book]]>Black Digerati: Sonya Donaldsonhttp://www.noiredigerati.com/digerati1/2009/9/7/black-digerati-sonya-donaldson.htmlMichaela Ehimika2009-09-08T00:58:39ZBlack Digerati Black Enterprise Sonya Donaldson Sunnygrrl Tech & Sensibility Technology JournalismMeet Sonya Donaldson, a multi-talented Black Digerati fulfilling roles in the fields of technology, journalism, and higher education. Donaldson has been a journalist for nearly two decades---and she also has more than a decade]]>Black Digerati: Dr. Kunle Olukotunhttp://www.noiredigerati.com/digerati1/2009/8/15/black-digerati-dr-kunle-olukotun.htmlMichael Lang2009-08-15T21:40:09ZBlack Digerati Dr. Olukotun Microprocessor Pervasive Parallelism Lab Standford UniversityDr. Kunle Olukotun is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the prestigious Stanford University where he has been on the faculty since 1991. Dr. Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop high-throughput, low power server systems with chip multiprocessor technology.]]>Black Digerati: Dr. Raquel Hillhttp://www.noiredigerati.com/digerati1/2009/8/3/black-digerati-dr-raquel-hill.htmlMichael Lang2009-08-04T03:05:35ZBlack Digerati Dr. Raquel Hill is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. I came across Dr. Hill and her work recently while researching the PhD program in Social Informatics at Indiana University. Dr. Hill received her PhD in Computer Science from the prestigious Harvard University and her M.S. and Bachelors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. What stood out the most to me about Dr. Hill was not that she got her]]>