We hosted this wonderful panel “Black PhD Students Pursuing Cybersecurity” in honor of Black History Month on Monday, February 20th, 2023 from 5.30pm – 7pm ET and heard them converse about their research, challenges faced by Black graduate students, and what needs to be done to support and encourage them in the field. This event was free and open to the public. This panel was jointly hosted by the CARE Lab, Black Girls Hack, and the Women in Cybersecurity (Temple Chapter).
 Katorah Williams Ph.D. Candidate | Temple University Panelist |
 Gabrielle Spence Ph.D. Student| Temple University Panelist |
 Terrance Campbell Ed.D. Student| Tennessee State University Panelist |
 Dr. Ajima Olaghere UX Researcher | Amazon Moderator |
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Katorah Williams |
Katorah Williams is a doctoral candidate in the Criminal Justice department at Temple University. She is currently working on her dissertation which explores the decision-making process related to engagement in lateral surveillance on social media. For the last 5 years, she has worked as a research assistant for Dr. Aunshul Rege in the C.A.R.E Lab, conducting research on social engineering, the use experiential learning in cybersecurity education, and adversarial decision making. Currently, she works with Dr. Katya Le Blanc and Timothy McJunkin of Idaho National Labs on CyOTE: Cybersecurity for the Operational Technology Environment, where she is exploring how energy vendors and providers manage cybersecurity for their customers. She has published seven papers on these topics and presented at numerous conferences, both domestic (ASC, ACJS, IEEE- ISEC) and international (IEEE-CSC).
Her research interests include privacy and surveillance, cybersecurity, social engineering, critical criminology with a focus on Black feminist theories, social inequality, and street smarts. Read more about Katorah Williams here. |
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Gabrielle Spence |
Gabrielle Spence am a researcher with special interests in youth, policy, and technology. She is completing a doctoral degree in Criminal Justice at Temple University, and also have master’s degrees in Criminal Justice and Public Administration from Rutgers University. She has experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research, as well as leading projects and data coding, analysis, and presentation efforts.
Read more about Gabrielle Spence here. |
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Terrance Campbell |
Terrance R. Campbell is a published Health Informatics and Information Systems Security Practitioner-Scholar with 30+ years of senior-level IT experience and 25+ years in formal and information education experience (3rd – graduate including classroom and leadership). Also, for over 25+ years, he assisted in developing and sustaining community-academic partnerships focused on building college students’ capacity enhance under-resourced minority communities’ resilience to behaviorally triggered biological and electronic infections.
Currently, Terrance pursuing an Ed.D. at Tennessee State University focusing on cyber-hygiene co-curriculars and playable case studies (Fall 2024 completion). As a teaching graduate assistant, he assisted students and leaders at 46+ HBCUs and in three African countries to create and implement digital resources for dismantling structures that perpetuate community-level health Read more about Terrance Campbell here. |
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Dr. Ajima Olaghere |
Dr. Ajima Olaghere is a criminologist and UX Researcher in high tech. She specializes in user centered, community-based, and mixed method research to problem solve and unearth unique insights. She’s passionate about synthesis and finding patterns to inform better systems and practices for a better world. She is a former Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University.
Read more about Dr. Olaghere here. |