Today, for the first time in a year, the tech industry’s attention will turn away from the Bay Area in favor of Houston, Texas. Thousands of women — from college-aged computer science newcomers to industry veterans and professors — will flock to the Grace Hopper Celebration of…
Over the past month, I conducted an online survey obscurely titled Tech Experiences. It was distributed over Twitter, Facebook, and various Slack channels to 70 participants who anonymously answered nineteen questions about themselves and the tech industry.
I’m a member of the Ladies Storm Hackathons community on Facebook and Amy Chen recently suggested “The Review”, a contributor series where women blog about their engineering internship experience to…
So you’ve just graduated college or are otherwise ready to enter the workforce. What do you do? Perhaps you’re in a new job in a new city and without your core group of friends or the college social scene to rely on. Not to mention, you want to…
Keeping people in a subordinated position in a company’s hierarchy, mostly because they don’t fit a certain stereotype, is something I…
Women’s groups are becoming more popular at companies, but unfortunately like many diversity initiatives — they favor straight, white women. I’m fortunate to work for a large enough company with a variety of diversity groups for Black, Latinx, LGBTQ…
A few years ago, I was running to be president of my high school’s Physics Club. After the other…
One of the most memorable moments for me from Grace Hopper was Sheryl Sandberg’s plea to the attendees:
“I can’t tell you enough how much I hope you stay in the tech fields, and on the tech…
