05 Mar Director of STEMGuyana impacts many students

Guyanese-born, Karen Abrams, the MBA executive director of STEMGuyana, said women make up close to 50 percent of the population, yet they are woefully underrepresented in STEM careers as the world has moved aggressively to technology oriented businesses and economies.

Abrams, a recipient of the prestigious Guyana 2018 Golden Arrow Of Achievement award for her work that raised the country’s technology profile by fielding teams at international robotics competitions in Washington and the United Arab Emirates, was intensely curious about how the mostly white people around her were able to prepare themselves for their careers in technology.

“I studied and implemented what I learned with my children, my Dekalb County community, then with the children of Guyana,” she said, “adding that more than 20,000 students have benefited from “our programs across Guyana.”