Recent and upcoming courses

  INMI 2700 Transformative Justice with Computing Technology ( Fall 2024 )

  DS2000 Programming with Data ( Fall 2024 )

  CS3000 Algorithms & Data ( Summer 2024 )

  DS2500 Intermediate Programming with Data ( Spring 2024 )

  CS5002 Discrete Math (Align) ( Spring 2024 )

  DS2500 Intermediate Programming with Data ( Fall 2023 )

  CS1800 Discrete Structures ( Fall 2023 )

Teaching Related

• In Fall 2024 I'm co-teaching with Prof. Darcelle Lahr a new Humanics course, INMI 2700. We're applying transformative justice approaches to support communities of recently incarcerated women of color. Students will learn about traumas suffered by women prior to, and within, the US carceral system; they will develop technology-based solutions to help these communities acclimate to life outside of prison, and to provide them with equitable access to technology learning.
• I co-organize the teaching-faculty Birds of a Feather session at the SIGCSE conference most years.
• In Spring 2023, I co-taught a seminar for Align students around professional identity and development.
• Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2021
• Khoury College Excellence in Teaching Award, 2021.
• Northeastern Faculty Senate, 2021-2025.
• Technical Advisor for the Center for Inclusive Computing.
• I've presented on inclusive teaching and equitable grading at UIUC's CS Summer Teaching Workshop, NE GWise's Annual Conference, and others.

Links

• Khoury News article about Women's Community of Code (2024)
• News @ Northeastern article about SMASH and the amazing Align students teaching! (2022)
• Khoury News article about SMASH x Northeastern (2022)
• Khoury News article about Summer 2021 courses.
• News @ Northeastern article about 2021 teaching awards.
• Huntington News article about Women's Community of Code.
• The Huntington News interviewed me one time and some of my origin story is in there.

Videos

• Random teaching video from post-Covid times (no dogs in this one :(
• Random teaching video from Covid times (featuring my dog Tugboat!)
• From Megan Rapinoe to Grace Hopper
• I once had a food truck
• I really don't fit in in Silicon Valley

I care a lot about diversity and inclusion in computer science. As Director of Broadening Participation, I work on making our classrooms inclusive and welcoming for students who have been historically underrepresented in computer science. (Lots more I want to do, too. The list below is a work in progress.)

Current/Recent Work Related to Broadening Participation

• Women's Community of Code
• I started Khoury College's annual Broadening Participation in CS Award, given to Carla Brodley (2022), Keith Bagley (2022), Kimberly McKimmon (2023), Bethany Edmunds (2023), Jonathan Mwaura (2024), and Tyré Richards (2024).
• Field trips to Khoury for Boston Public School students, in collaboration with Kayla McLaughlin (email me if you know a class that wants to come for a visit, or if you're a student at NEU who wants to help out!). We host mulitple schools per semester to learn a little about CS, about college, and have lunch together -- since 2022.
• Chair of Teaching Faculty Hiring Committee (Boston campus) since 2023.
• SMASH x Northeastern Academic Champion
• Khoury College Area Chair: Broadening Participation (2022-2023). We don't have departments here, but we have Impact Areas as of Fall 2022, and I led the one related to diversity & inclusion in its first year.
• Member of Northeastern's Presidential Concil on Diversity and Inclusion
• STRIDE Member since 2022.
• CS & Ethics Research Fellowship - collaboration with Profs. Vance Ricks and Meica Magnani (2022-2023).
• Break Into Tech events for the Align program, my favorite thing at Khoury. BiT and other Align/Khoury stuff is always posted on the events calendar.
• Khoury financial support to attend Grace Hopper, Tapia, or another comp sci conference (I'm on the committee -- if you're a student at Northeastern, keep an eye on your email for the application announcement!)
• Faculty advisor for student groups FirstByte, Grad Women Coders, and Code4Community
• Member of Northeastern's Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Executive Committee since 2021
• MAGIC Mentor program (mentor) since 2016
• Girls Who Code (SIP instructor in Chicago @ Groupon 2015

• laneys @ northeastern.edu
• Meserve 313
• Office hours (Fall '24): M 9-10:30am, F 3-4:30pm on Zoom or in person (Sign up for a time or just drop by).
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

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My mission in life is to dismantle computer science's reputation as an intimidating and inaccessible field. I focus a lot on supporting and encouraging women and people of color in computer science. As a field, we have a long way to go with diversity and inclusion, and I want to contribute as much as I can to making computer science welcoming for everyone.

 

I've been lucky to have incredible teachers -- my first comp sci professor at Simmons College as an undergrad and my PhD advisor at Dartmouth College cared so much about teaching (and about their students) that it really inspired me to do more in computer science. I try to live up to their examples every day.

I didn't write a line of code until college, and to this day I don't write code for fun. But I love it as my job, and the fact that I haven't done it my whole life doesn't make me any less of a computer scientist. No matter when in your life you've tried some programming, or made a career of it -- doesn't matter. We all belong here.

With my husband Tom in Montana, 2024. I ran the Missoula Marathon (had a great time but did NOT see a moose, which was one of my goals for that trip!)

I run (very slowly) with two local running groups, the PIONEERS Run Crew and the Heartbreakers. In my experience, runners are about the most friendly and welcoming group of people you'll find in any community.


With the PIONEERS at 26.TRUE Marathon

Tom and I have two dogs and I will talk about them incessantly if you let me. They're both from Great Dog Rescue New England, and they look cute as hell but let me tell you they are a handful.


Carol & Grizz Strange

We also used to have a sweet, mellow bulldog called Tugboat. You might have caught a glimpse of Tugs if you've watched my older lecture videos. He died in 2020 after many naps on our comfy couch.


Tugboat Strange (2019)