Mary Fernández is an American computer scientist and activist for women and minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Fernández enrolled in the engineering department at Brown University in the early 1980s.
She worked there for seventeen years, ending her career as the Assistant Vice President of Information and Software Systems Research.
[3][4] During her time there, she worked on technology to handle semi-structured XML, particularly the XQuery language.
In 2013 she became CEO, and she transitioned to president in 2014 when MentorNet became a division of the Great Minds in STEM non-profit.