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The institute is also known for its Summer Math and Science Honors Academy (SMASH) three-summer high school program. SMASH has been described as "100 percent students of color" and has led most of them to pursue a degree in a quantitative science.
She is the founder of SMASH, now in its 20th year, which provides rigorous STEM education and access to social capital for low-income high school students of color on 10 university campuses across the country.
Ms. Kapor Klein is a former trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation and founded SMASH—a college access program for high school students of color from low income backgrounds—on the Cal campus in 2003.
Remove from myFT. Freada Kapor Klein: Silicon Valley’s diversity activist. The venture capitalist and philanthropist backs her mission to rid tech of discrimination with bold action. Freada...
Jul 1, 2019 · Freada Kapor Klein: Let me start and say the Leaky Tech Pipeline documents all those places where talent felt falls out, even starting in preschool and where bias rears its ugly head. And I think ...
The very first SMASH site program launched on the University of California, Berkeley campus in 2004, but it follows a decades-long legacy of diversity and inclusion advocacy by our founder, Dr. Freada Kapor Klein. What We Do.
On Sunday mornings in the early ’70s, Freada Kapor Klein could be found sitting on her living room floor talking on the phone to strangers. She was an undergraduate at Berkeley and a trained peer counselor for Bay Area Women Against Rape, one of the country’s first rape crisis call centers.
