Season 1 Episode 1 — Katrina Walker founder of CodeOp (formerly Codely — Women’s Coding Bootcamp) (show notes below 👇)
Email 📩 : katrina@codeop.tech
Website: https://codeop.tech/
This is an interview with Katrina Walker about her fascinating journey up until now and how she ended up founding CodeOp (formerly Codely)! (-:
Show Notes
A chronological overview of the episode:
00:00 . — Overview of Katrina’s journey up until now
11:00 — The impetus to study Psychology
14:00 — Planned Parenthood and social work
16:00 — Woofing —farms and firearms in the Negev desert in Israel, anthropology of food, oh and the politics of the falafel 😮!
21:00 — The study of cultural anthropology and polymathic professors
28:00 — Work in social ventures, startups and potential PhDs
31:00 — The choice to study Data Science
35:00 — The Data Science Masters Experience and overcoming inherited narratives
39:30 — The transition from studying Data Science to working in it: supercomputing centres and corporate environments
44:30 — Plan B’s and Hackbright Academy
48:30 — And CodeOp (formerly Codely) is born…
57:30 — The ultimate question — thoughts on why there aren’t more women in tech?
Links to a bunch of the stuff that was mentioned:
- Lemmings — online video game popular in early 90’s
- San Francisco Impact Hub — coworking space with social mission
- Hackbright Academy — all-women’s coding school in San Fransisco
- Planned Parenthood — nonprofit organisation that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally
- World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWHOOF) — a hospitality service operated by a loose network of national organizations that facilitate homestays on organic farms.
- Dislocating Cultures — book
- What The Bleep Do We Know — movie
- Seven Ideas That Shook The Universe — book
- Rising Sun Energy Center — leading green training, employment, and residential efficiency organization
- Collabriv — startup
- Data Science Program — at Graduate School of Economics in Barcelona
- Optimizely — company that makes customer experience optimization software for other companies
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center — public research center
