STEMwise Connections is creating and advancing strong & wise connections for organizations and individuals to advance goals and increase impact.

Our clients are companies, non-profits, colleges and schools, or other organizations seeking to advance their STEM education, outreach, recruitment, volunteer engagement and other strategic goals. Our clients value diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. They value connections and collaborations that maximize impact and the expertise that STEMwise Connections can strategically provide for their students, educators, employees, teams, funders, volunteers, and other stakeholders.

STEMwise Connections expertise areas include:

  • Fostering connections and collaborations across strategies, systems, and networks of organizations and individuals to advance common goals
  • Advancing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning in formal and informal education settings
  • Providing professional development for educators, role models, and other professionals to increase confidence and build capacity in STEM education, outreach, recruitment, hiring, and retention efforts in education and business organizations.
  • Creating STEM curriculum for out-of-school programs grounded in research-based effective practices to engage all students, including students from historically excluded groups
  • Advancing gender equity in STEM recruitment, enrollment, and other programming and practices

Contact us at info@stemwiseconnections.com. 

About Tricia Berry

Tricia Berry is the founder and CEO of STEMwise Connections LLC. Learn more about Tricia below and on LinkedIn.

Tricia Berry has over 25 years of experience in the STEM world making strong & wise connections with, between, and for companies, schools, colleges, non-profits, networks, and ecosystems and those who make these organizations thrive. She values connections and collaborations, process efficiency, maximizing impact, and strategy alignment. While advancing gender equity in STEM is her passion, she believes that advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging is critical to the success of any program, product, or organization.

Her vast experience includes STEM education and professional development design and delivery, keynotes and professional speaking, volunteer engagement and management, kindergarten through undergraduate STEM curriculum development, program scaling and dissemination, and informal STEM education and outreach program assessment and evaluation.

Tricia’s efforts to advance STEM education and gender equity in STEM have been widely recognized. Tricia’s op-ed posts on engaging girls in STEM have appeared in the Washington Post’s PostEverything, the Houston Chronicle, and the Austin American Statesman. She has been interviewed by Inside Higher Ed, U.S. News & World Report, and USA Today College for articles on gender equity in STEM and informal STEM programs to engage girls in STEM. She has been recognized by STEMTx, SXSW Interactive, and the Women in Engineering ProActive Network for her community outreach efforts and leadership in STEM education. She was named one of the 100 Women Leaders in STEM by STEMconnector.

She served as Director of the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University of Texas at Austin for 20 years (2001 through 2021) before creating and launching Women in STEM (WiSTEM) at UT Austin as Executive Director in late 2021. Since 2007, Tricia has led the Texas Girls Collaborative Project (TxGCP), a statewide network of advocates and educators from non-profits, K-12 schools, universities and colleges, and companies across Texas and beyond who are committed to motivating and supporting women and girls to pursue and thrive in careers in STEM. She has also served as Broadening Participation Director for two National Science Foundation-funded research centers: NAnomanufacturing Systems CENTer (NASCENT) and Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials (CDCM: an NSF MRSEC).

Tricia started her entrepreneurial endeavors as Co-Founder and Executive VP for 825 Basics, helping people craft career strategies, find their passions, and achieve career success. She is the co-author of You Can’t Eat Your Degree: Combine Your Passions and Philosophies to Create the Story of Your Future and Exceeds Expectations: Take Control of Your Performance Review. 

Tricia began her STEM career as a Process Engineer and a Product Development Engineer at The Dow Chemical Company in Freeport, Texas. At Dow, she created and led a site-wide STEM day as part of Take Your Daughter to Work Day which inspired her passion for STEM education and advancing gender equity in STEM pathways and careers.

Tricia holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering and an MBA.

Learn more about Tricia and her passions for gender equity in STEM, STEM education, and gardening on her Musings, Mishaps, Madness, Magic, and More blog.