Connie Chow, Executive Director

Email: cchow [at] scienceclubforgirls [dot] org

Phone: (617) 391-0361 x101

Dr. Chow (Ph.D., Program in Virology, Harvard University) became SCFG's first Executive Director in July 2006. Prior to that, she was an assistant professor in Biology at Simmons College, where she was co-principal investigator of "Technology at the Crossroads", a National Science Foundation-funded science and technology summer camp for middle school girls and boys in the Boston public schools.

Dr. Chow is a dedicated educator who has a long-term interest in humanistic science education and social justice, and is an Education Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences. A molecular microbiologist by training, Connie received her Ph.D. through the program in Virology at Harvard University, and conducted her postdoctoral research on malaria gene expression at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Connie recently co-authored an op-ed in Mass High Tech on importance of out-of-school-time programs in science for girls, and the whole-girl approach.

Connie co-founded the Boston Area Girls STEM Collaborative in 2008, is a leader-member of the Greater Boston Girls Coalition and the co-chair of the Leadership Council of the Southern New England Girls Collaborative Project, a regional arm of the National Science Foundation-funded National Girls Collaborative Project. She is a member of the Diversity Subcommittee of the MA STEM Advisory Council. She recently served on the City of Cambridge Blue Ribbon Commission on Middle School Youth and was the Youth Council co-chair of the MetroNorth Regional Employment Board.

Connie was a member of the Steering Committee of Amnesty International USA's Women's Human Rights program for three years. With Laura Roskos, she co-founded the Massachusetts CEDAW Project in 2002, an action and research collaborative that seeks to implement international human rights principles, in particular the international women's treaty CEDAW, in local contexts. This project is currently housed at the Suffolk University Center for Womens' Health and Human Rights.

Connie was born and raised in Hong Kong. An avid traveler, her most memorable trips were to Afghanistan, Ghana, Morocco and the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. She has been a member of the Back Bay Chorale intermittently since 1994.

Listen to an interview with Dr. Chow on Gay Vernon's Exceptional Women that was aired on 2/5/2011.