Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to “Women in Tech Presents: A Lecture with Fay Cobb Payton, PhD ’97” Monday, Oct. 7, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women (Tinkham Veale University Center, Suite 248).
About the speaker
Fay Cobb Payton is a program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Division of Computer and Network Systems. At the NSF, she is working with a group of leaders on programs involving Computer Science for All, Broadening Participation in Tech/STEM, Smart and Connected Health, Ethics in Computing and others. She also is a full professor (with tenure) of information technology/systems at North Carolina State University and was named a University Faculty Scholar for her leadership in turning research into solutions to society’s most pressing issues. She was named the 2016 North Carolina Technology Association Tech Educator of the Year.
Payton is the founder director of the MyHealthImpactNetwork initiative, a social network experience that focuses on health disparities and social media technology interventions. MyHealthImpactNetwork provides “voice” for the millennial generation about health topics, such as sexual and mental health, and technology innovation.
Payton earned a PhD in information and decision systems (with a specialty in health care systems) from Case Western Reserve University.