In the FemTechNet Summer Workshop of 2015, nodes took place in Santa Monica (at Liz Losh’s house), New York City (at The New School), and Ann Arbor (at University of Michigan). The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Committee (CRES) of FemTechNet was formed at the Santa Monica node and continued to meet throughout the academic year of 2015-2016. That year of activity resulted in the FemTechNet Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Pedagogy Workbook. Members of this early formation of the CRES committee were Anne Cong-Huyen, Genevieve Carpio, Vani Natarajan, Lilly Nguyen, Amanda Phillips, and Veronica Paredes.