2008-2022
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology develops tools and programs designed to help industry, academia and government recruit, retain and develop women technology leaders. As an Ambassador, I advocated for Anita Borg’s mission within my spheres of influence. I was recruited to become an Ambassador by the Institute after attending the Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing in 2010, where I volunteered as a community note taker (attending sessions and posting the notes to the conference wiki), provided official tweet coverage assisted with the packaging of “swag bags” for conference attendees. I was an Ambassador from 2011-22, and in that capacity, I reengaged existing ABI Ambassadors within my company, held strategy meetings to identify areas of support for the organization and technical women, and led workshops to source and submit abstracts for the Grace Hopper Celebration. I served as a reviewer on the Career and Software tracks for the Grace Hopper Conference from 2010-2022. As a session chair, I supported speakers at the conference.