Dr. Qyana M. Stewart

Dr. Qyana M. Stewart is a technology entrepreneur, social justice advocate, educator, mentor, and award-winning philanthropist with more than 25 years of combined experience across the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Trained as a certified senior software developer, product manager, and project manager, she is passionate about designing technologies that address complex social challenges. Her entrepreneurial and academic leadership includes roles as an educational consultant for the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Executive in Residence for the Johns Hopkins University and School of Medicine’s Ward Infinity Accelerator, and National Science Foundation I-Corps instructor and mentor at both regional and national levels.

As a social technology scientist, her research examines prominent Black women academics and entrepreneurs of the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminating how their legacies have shaped contemporary pathways for Black women transitioning into technology entrepreneurship. She is the first scholar to investigate these phenomena. Her work has earned numerous honors, including the 2023 Senior Teaching Fellowship through the Women in Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, in partnership with the Institute of Diversity Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the 2024 Center for Black Entrepreneurship Research Fellowship at Spelman and Morehouse Colleges. She also received the prestigious Fulbright Specialist Award (Ethiopia) from the U.S. Department of State and was previously deployed through the U.S. Speaker Program to engage women academics and entrepreneurs in Japan. In 2025, she was inducted into the Howard University Chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.

Dr. Stewart holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies and Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Howard University, and a Master of Science in Information Technology and a Graduate Certificate in Project Management from the University of Maryland University College.

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