The Role of Black Feminist Thought in Informal Cs Education

Faith-based organizations provide a variety of supplemental programs to address social, economic, and political issues that negatively impact marginalized communities. In this experience report, we engage Black women employed at a faith-based organization, as experts and collaborators, in creating an equitable learning environment to accommodate the computing education needs of Black students who live in an under-resourced rural community. Leveraging Black feminist thought, we afford these Black women, who are new to computing education, an opportunity to develop their block style programming skills using Scratch. Combining our areas of expertise, we develop learning materials that affirm the racial identity of Black elementary students, contributing to the development of the faith-based organization's informal computing education program. © 2023 IEEE.