Grace Notes 2016

Talks from Estefania Ortiz, Kat Li, Bianca St.Louis, Star Simpson, and Ellen Pao

Grace Notes is a yearly event celebrating women who work in tech, hosted by Chain and co-sponsored by Lyft and Eatsa. (You can read more about Grace Notes here.)

Estefania Ortiz

Estefania is currently a founder at Greo, a social media platform for people to share their stories and learn from each other’s experiences. She just graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and is originally from Puerto Rico.

Kat Li

Kat is Head of Product at Digit and was previously at Quora and Stripe. She studied linguistics and psychology at Stanford University and therefore enjoys late night conversations about linguistic relativity and how to recognize and reverse patterns of oppression. Kat speaks 5 languages and has two cats.

Bianca St.Louis

Bianca is a self-described connector and brunch aficionado who has held a variety of roles at Pinterest, Andreessen Horowitz, and Code2040.

Star Simpson

Star a hardware designer and is currently building flying robots at Otherlab in San Francisco. She is additionally co-creator of Project Alloy, an initiative to bring people from backgrounds currently underrepresented in tech by providing access to technical conferences.

Ellen Pao

Ellen is the co-founder of Project Include, an effort to advance diversity and inclusion solutions in Silicon Valley. Previously, she served as interim CEO of Reddit.