Natalie Coleman Making Steam Programs Accessible To Diverse Students
Coleman is the founder and CEO of After the Peanut, a Chicago-based organization that provides various educational STEAM opportunities and programs for K-12 students, including coding programs and STEAM tutoring. After serving as a high school physics and chemistry teacher, Coleman saw where the school system was failing. “There was a lack of diversity in textbooks and even in the curriculum,” Coleman told Lifewire in a phone interview. “I kept a poster in my classroom with about 30 African American scientists on it, and that was the seed to my organization....