Joanna Adewunmi is a second year PhD student in the School of Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is interested in studying the underrepresentation and participation of Black women in STEM fields and careers. She is passionate about gender and racial equity, social justice, and digital equity, and loves to address these issues from an Information Science standpoint. Her other research interests are information behavior, community informatics, and women studies. She currently works as a Teaching Assistant at the School of Information Science. She is married with two energetic kids.