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 is a nationally recognized leader advancing gender equity and inclusion in STEM education, known for building networks, programs, and systems that expand access and opportunity for girls and women in STEM across Texas and beyond. With more than 25 years of experience across academia, industry, nonprofits, and statewide and national networks, she is deeply valued for her ability to make strong, strategic connections among the people and organizations working to strengthen STEM pathways.

Tricia currently leads the Texas Girls Collaborative Project (TxGCP), a statewide network of educators, nonprofits, higher education institutions, companies, and advocates committed to motivating and supporting girls and women to pursue and thrive in STEM careers. Through TxGCP, she supports the dissemination of effective, equitable, and inclusive STEM education practices and fosters cross‑sector collaboration in coordination with the National Girls Collaborative Project, amplifying impact across Texas and beyond.

In addition, Tricia serves part-time as Statewide Director of the WeTeach_CS Secondary Certification Prep Hubs Project, based at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) as part of Expanding Pathways in Computing (EPIC) and WeTeach_CS at The University of Texas at Austin. In this role, she provides project management and statewide coordination to help grow the number of certified computer science teachers in Texas high schools by supporting university‑ and region‑based certification preparation hubs, strengthening educator pipelines that are essential to equitable access to computing education.

Across her career, Tricia has led and supported STEM education and professional development design and delivery; keynote speaking and facilitation; volunteer engagement and management; K–16 curriculum development; program scaling and dissemination; and informal STEM education program assessment and evaluation. While advancing gender equity in STEM is her central passion, she believes that diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are critical to the long‑term success of any program, product, or organization.

Tricia also serves in advisory or leadership capacities for a range of STEM‑ and equity‑focused efforts, including the UT Austin K–12 STEM Collaborative, the Greater Austin STEM Ecosystem, and the NSF‑funded Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES ACCEYSS Consortium National Advisory Board. She has previously served as Broadening Participation Director for two NSF‑funded research centers: the Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Energy Technologies (NASCENT) and the Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials (CDCM), an NSF MRSEC.

Previously, Tricia served 4.5 years as the founding Executive Director of Women in STEM (WiSTEM) at The University of Texas at Austin, following a 20‑year tenure as Director of the Women in Engineering Program at UT Austin. She also co‑founded and led the career consulting company 825 Basics and began her career as a Process Engineer and Product Development Engineer at The Dow Chemical Company, where leading a site‑wide STEM Day as part of Take Your Daughter to Work Day helped spark her lifelong commitment to STEM education and gender equity in STEM careers.

Tricia’s work has been widely recognized. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, and the Austin American‑Statesman, and she has been interviewed by Inside Higher Ed, U.S. News & World Report, and USA Today College on issues related to gender equity in STEM and informal STEM education. She has been recognized by STEMTx, SXSW Interactive, and the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, and was named one of the 100 Women Leaders in STEM by STEMconnector.

Beyond her professional work, Tricia 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. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MBA, is a hobbyist gardener, novice birdwatcher, amateur nature photographer, and avid reader, and is the mom of two chemical engineering sons and the wife of another chemical engineer.

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.