ServeIT is a a multi-discipline, collaboratively-run technology clinic at Indiana University, where students of informatics and students of non-profit management collaborate to put student-led information-technology support teams into local non-profit organizations. In this talk at TEDxBloomington 2013, Laurie Burns McRobbie discusses the IT gap in the local non-profit sector, as well as the gender and minority gaps that continue to exist in the IT industry — and how programs like ServeIT can address both problems. Burns McRobbie, Indiana University's first lady, holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the IU School of Informatics and Computing, where she founded and chairs the Advisory Committee for ServeIT, a service-learning program providing IT services to local nonprofits. She serves on numerous boards, including the board of Middle Way House, which is a national model program addressing domestic violence. A technologist in higher education for more than 25 years, she served in numerous management and executive positions at the University of Michigan and as an executive director with Internet2.

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