About Us

Monique Frize is Distinguished Professor (retired) at Carleton University and Professor Emerita at the University of Ottawa. She was a clinical engineer (1971-1989) and a Professor since 1989. Monique published over 200 papers on artificial intelligence in medicine, infrared imaging, ethics, and women in engineering and science. She is Fellow and Life Member of IEEE (2012), Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (1992), Fellow of Engineers Canada (2010), Officer of the Order of Canada (1993), and recipient of the 2010 Gold Medal from Professional Engineers Ontario and the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers. She received five honourary doctorates. Monique held the national Northern Telecom/NSERC Chair for women in engineering at the University of New Brunswick (1989-1997), and the NSERC/Nortel Chair for women in science and engineering for Ontario (1997-2002). A founding member of INWES (International Network of women engineers and scientists), she was president (2002-2008). A founding member of the INWES Education and Research Institute (now Canadian Institute for Women in Engineering and Science), she is president since 2007. Her books: The Bold and the Brave: A history of women in science and engineering was published by University of Ottawa Press in 2009 and her Memoirs in 2019.

Claire Deschênes was holder of one of the NSERC Chair for women in science and engineering from 1997 to 2005. As such, she was member or Chair of numerous boards. She is co-founder of three non-profit organizations of women in S&E: Affestim, CIWES (former INWES-ERI) and INWES.

Throughout her career, Claire Deschênes published many journals papers and collective books. She is the current director of the international multidisciplinary journal Recherches féministes, and president of AFFESTIM and CIWES-ICFIS.

Claire Deschênes has received numerous awards and distinctions for her career. Among these, she has been named Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 2021 and Member of the Order of Canada in 2019. She received two honorary doctorates, from the University of Sherbrooke in 2019 and from the University of Ottawa. She was awarded the Prix du Québec Lionel-Boulet in 2020 for her scientific career and for her contribution to the economic growth of Quebec (1st woman). In 2019, she lent her name to the Claire-Deschênes Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition of the Université de Sherbrooke. She received in 2015

Marina Bokovay is a professional archivist with over 10 years experience working in the fields of archives and records management.  Marina has degrees from Queen’s University, Kingston and the University of Toronto.

Marina is the current Head of Archives and Special Collections at the University of Ottawa Library, a role she has been in since April 2018. In her short time at uOttawa, she oversaw the launch of the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM initiative and the building of a new database that amalgamates information about the archives of women in STEM from across the country.   

Prior to uOttawa, Marina was the Archivist and Records Manager for Victoria University in the University of Toronto and spent 7 years with the Ontario Government before that.  

Marina has a strong interest in preserving the documentary heritage of women in Canada and ensuring that researchers are connected with the information they need.  Besides the Archive of Women in STEM initiative, Marina’s current focus is around digital records preservation and ensuring that records on legacy formats are not lost.

Troy Eller English is the archivist for the Society of Women Engineers, based at the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit. Since becoming the SWE archivist in 2008, she has worked to raise the profile and relevance of the archives in celebrating the achievements of the Society and its members, supporting the Society’s current mission, and informing its future decision-making. She is also producer for Tales from the Reuther Library, of a podcast featuring stories about labor history, Detroit, and Wayne State University, as told by the Reuther’s archivists and researchers. Outside the Reuther, Eller English is co-editor for the Michigan Archival Association newsletter; serves on the steering committee for To Boldly Preserve, an organization working to preserve the history of American space flight; and consults on archives for the Detroit Curling Club and the U.S. Women’s Curling Association.

Sandra Corbeil is the Director Strategic Partnerships and Networks for Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation. Sandra has more than 25 years working as an education, communication, and outreach leader and is a member of a number of national organisations that promote partnership and collaboration in STEM ecosystem.  She is responsible for the creation of Ingenium’s award-winning Summer Institute for Elementary Teachers and most recently led Ingenium’s Women in STEM initiative which includes a travelling exhibition, free online posters and resources as well as a series of Instagram Videos showcasing women in STEM.  She has a strong interest in advocating for equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility.

Colleen Ennett is a passionate Healthcare Data Scientist, who currently serves as the Director of a team of data scientists at the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore, Maryland. Along with software developers and data engineers, Colleen’s team works to solve challenging clinical and operational problems facing a hospital system using machine learning, statistics, operations research and generative AI. She is working to incorporate social drivers of health into healthcare assessments to improve access to care for marginalized populations and to improve their health state. Prior to UMMS, Colleen was a Senior Researcher at Philips Research in New York state, where her focus was developing algorithms to identify deterioration of a patient’s health status in the hospital. She has 4 issued patents related to her innovations at Philips Research.

Colleen received her PhD in Electrical Engineering majoring in Biomedical Engineering from Carleton University. Her graduate work focused on using data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to predict clinical outcomes for patients in the Neonatal ICU and patients undergoing cardiac surgery. She holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, and a bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Guelph.