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September 28, 2015 · 5:18 pm

First Day with TechWomen 2015 Emerging Leaders – South Bay

99 TechWomen Emerging Leaders have arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area from 19 countries. I am one of the Cultural Mentors working with the South Bay contingent. Erin Keeley and I spent time after their orientation today – giving a tour of the CalTrain and VTA Light Rail Stations, going to lunch, and going to the market to stock the kitchens in their apartments. Hanging out with amazingly smart and capable technical women from Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe is such a delight!

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August 19, 2015 · 3:33 pm

Organizing TechWomen Mentors, South Bay Activities

The TechWomen mentoring program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs is looking forward to welcoming 99 Emerging Leaders from 19 countries to the Silicon Valley next month. I am honored to be the Lead for the Cultural Mentors – South Bay – Arts & Culture group, working with experienced TechWomen mentors Megan Dean Farah, Lori Kahn, Rochelle Kopp, and Shannon McElyea. Arezoo Miot (TechWomen Director) and Jillian Scott (TechWomen Program Manager) of IIE – San Francisco lead the South Bay Cultural Mentors’ orientation meeting yesterday, generously hosted by Flipboard in Palo Alto.

Our Arts & Culture team will work with about fifty of the ELs who are staying in Mountain View – coming to us from Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe. The ELs are still in the process of being matched with their Professional Mentors and companies. 91 companies in the San Francisco Bay Area have hosted ELs since 2011. They arrive at the end of September and will be in the US for about six weeks.

Our team will be considering events and activities throughout the Bay Area. However, since we all live in the South Bay, we have been collaborating to create a list of options closer to home – to reduce transportation management and traffic time. Here is our list so far – for discussion. We will only pick a small number of these for the whole South Bay EL group to enjoy!

17 Mile Drive (Carmel)
Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco
Big Basin Redwoods State Park (Santa Cruz)
California Missions Trail – 6 in SF Bay Area:
San Juan Bautista, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara de Asis, San Jose,
San Francisco de Asis Mission Dolores, San Rafael Arcangel
Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose
Chinese Cultural Garden – Overfelt Gardens Park (San Jose)
Computer History Museum – Friday Night (Mountain View)
Congregation Beth David Simchat Torah Celebrations (Saratoga)
Creative Convergence Silicon Valley
de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University
Dragon Theater (Redwood City)
Draeger’s Cooking School (Menlo Park)
Gilroy Gardens – theme park (Gilroy)
Great America – amusement park (Santa Clara)
Habitat for Humanity – volunteer to build a house
Hakone gardens, Saratoga
Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival
Happy Hollow (San Jose)
Harker School – high school homecoming game (San Jose)
Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park (Santa Cruz Mountains)
History San Jose
Japanese American Museum of San Jose
Lick Observatory tour (Mount Hamilton – San Jose)
Monterey Baq Aquarium day trip
Muslim Community Center tour (Santa Clara)
Petroglyph ceramic lounge, and Glow candle making – crafts (Willow Glen – San Jose)
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium (San Jose)
San Francisco 49ers – football game (Santa Clara)
San Jose Animal Care Center – animal shelter (San Jose)
San Jose City Hall – tour
San Jose Earthquakes – soccer game (San Jose)
San Jose Municipal Rose Garden
San Jose State Spartans – football game (San Jose)
San Jose Taiko Public Workshop
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
San Jose State University – campus tour
San Juan Bautista – city and mission tour
Santa Clara University – campus tour
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk – amusement park on beach
Santa Maria Urban Ministry – volunteer at a community food distribution warehouse
Silicon Valley Ballet (San Jose)
Silicon Valley Lines model train club operations night (San Jose)
Silicon Valley Symphony – California Theater (San Jose)
Stanford University – campus tour (Stanford / Palo Alto)
Sunset Gardens kitchen and garden tour (Menlo Park)
TechShop San Jose – tour fabrication and prototyping studio
The Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose)
Theaterworks (Mountain View)
University of California at Santa Cruz – campus tour
Westwind Drive-in movie night at Capitol (San Jose)
Winchester Mystery House (San Jose)

TechWomen 2015, Mentoring Standard, Notable Technical Women, Wikipedia

TechWomen 2015: The TechWomen 2015 year has started! Professional and Cultural mentors for the 99 Emerging Leaders from 19 countries who will participate in the five-week program are being notified of acceptances. I have been honored to be selected as a Cultural Mentor for the South Bay Area in the Arts & Culture group. I am looking forward to working with Emerging Leaders and other mentors in the Silicon Valley. Since 2011, 156 women from Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tunisia, Yemen, and Zimbabwe have participated. The 2015 TechWomen program will expand to include women from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

This year, my company Mentoring Standard will be offering training and certification for TechWomen mentors. Our Team is now developing those materials. We are very much looking forward to supporting this outstanding program of citizen diplomacy by the US Department of State – Bureau of Educational Cultural Affairs.

Notable Technical Women: The Notable Technical Women project by Jessica Dickinson Goodman (California Department of Justice), Dr. Susan Rodger (Duke University), and me is also thriving: Jessica just placed a big re-order of the Notable Women in Computing card decks and posters, and the TechWomen cards and posters continue to sell steadily. TechWomen Director Arezoo Miot is pictured above with the TechWomen poster in her Institute of International Education office in San Francisco.

Want to write for Wikipedia? We welcome corrections and additions to information on the Notable Technical Women materials. Since the first printing in November 2014, eight honorees have had new Wikipedia biographies written (or we found pages about them): Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Laurie Hendren, Kathleen McKeown, Betty Snyder (aka Betty Holberton), Valerie Taylor, Marlyn Wescoff (aka Marilyn Meltzer), Linda Petzold, and Lixia Zhang. There are only six Notable Technical Women honorees left (out of the 54 honorees) who need biographies written: Anuradha Annaswamy, Chieko Asakawa, Qiheng Hu, Yuqing Gao, Lila Ibrahim, and Sophie Vandebroek. We update the cards as possible between printings.

	Just-printed posters – July 2015
	Susan, Jessica, and Katy – June 2015

Crafts in South Africa

During the January 2015 TechWomen mentoring program Delegation to South Africa, I was able to see (and buy!) many remarkable crafts. Even though I try to buy directly from the craft workers (rather than from brokers), or at least buy local rather than imported goods if possible, within Africa craft sales are quietly international. Some of the crafts for sale in Cape Town were clearly imported from Kenya and Rwanda (confirmed by the shop keepers) but I also realized that a wood carving I purchased in May 2014 in Ethiopia was probably from South Africa. All of the cloth I purchased in Rwanda last year was from Congo, and the cloth I purchased last month in South Africa was from Zimbabwe (again, confirmed by the shop keepers).

The most remarkable crafts I saw in South Africa involved glass beads: jewelry, pottery with beads, bead and wire animals. Some notable craft sources:

Arts on Main in Maboneng Precinct, Johannesburg – a location for dozens of small craft shops and food stalls in an old warehouse, including a very creative photo vendor called iwasshot in joburg – “a platform for former street children to learn skills and generate an income”
Streetwires in Cape Town – first rate creativity and execution in a wide variety of designs. I liked the animals and angels best!
TheBarn incubator and community center (in Khayelitsha, Cape Town) – featuring several small craft shops, including the work of notable potter Martin Mayongo whose beaded raku ware pottery is superb.
MzansiStore – a popup store inside of a hotel in Cape Town
Greenmarket Square, Cape Town – a location for dozens of small craft stalls under awnings outside, some staffed by craft workers but most run by brokers

If you don’t have much time to shop, the Out of Africa store in the Johannesburg airport has a good selection. Pictures from my craft hunting:

Martin Mayongo pots with beads, TheBarn, Khayelitsha, Cape Town South Africa

Martin Mayongo plate with beads, TheBarn, Khayelitsha, Cape Town South Africa

cloth from Zimbabwe, bought at Greenmarket Square Cape Town South Africa

tablecloth from Zimbabwe, bought at Greenmarket Square Cape Town South Africa

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January 15, 2015 · 6:09 pm

108 Technical Role Models and Mentors

As of January 2015, these cards and posters are available for sale on Notable Technical Women.

I am proud to present 108 role models and mentors. Each of these technical women has earned her place through remarkable accomplishments and experience:

54 Notable Women in Computing who are pioneers or have received multiple, high-level awards from more than one institution (such as being named an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, elected to a National Academy, or receiving the Turing Award).
54 TechWomen Emerging Leaders (2011-2014, from 16 countries in the Middle East and Africa) – alumnae of the US State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs mentoring program hosted in Silicon Valley annually.

You may know that after selling out the first edition of Notable Women playing cards at the Hopper Conference, Dr. Susan Rodger (Computer Science, Duke University), Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and I created the Notable Women in Computing Kickstarter, which was crowd funded by generous backers at five times our original asking. Since then, Jessica has ably managed our production and shipping. Card decks and posters shipped last month to not only our backers but also to 500 educators around the world (USA, Netherlands, Scotland, Nigeria, Lebanon, New Zealand, India…). We are now getting many photos of the cards and posters “in the wild” from teachers and schools, companies, and even from honorees. Susan and Jessica and I are discussing our next steps for the project, since we are still getting new requests for decks and posters. Jessica is setting up an ecommerce site for future purchases and new customers. More news on that soon…

“Notable Women in Computing” has also inspired many daughter projects – including the “TechWomen Emerging Leaders” poster and card decks (for which Jessica was also the designer!) – now in production to go to South Africa for the TechWomen Delegation next week.

A role model is a person whose behavior, example, or success is emulated by others, especially by younger people. That is, a role model can inspire without ever communicating directly with the person whose life they have touched. Mentors, on the other hand, advise and inspire directly. In short, practical terms:

Mentors make introductions.
Mentors give recommendations to resources.
Mentors give feedback for the mentee to consider.

I am lucky to know many of the 108 women honored here personally. My respect for this group could not be higher. Most of the “Notable Women in Computing” group have been role models and mentors to generations of students and rising professionals. When I have served on the selection committees for TechWomen Emerging Leaders, one of the most common hopes I read in their application essays is for an opportunity to give back to their community and to help girls learn to use and love technology. I have also heard this aspiration over and over from my own amazing TechWomen mentees.

Please help spread the news of these amazing technical leaders. In August 2013, I wrote about Getting Beyond Marie Curie – developing information and awareness about other great women tole models. Here are 108.

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December 30, 2014 · 11:24 pm

List: TechWomen Emerging Leader Cards from Africa and the Middle East

As of January 2015, these cards are available for sale on Notable Technical Women.

Yesterday, the selection committee picked 54 TechWomen Emerging Leaders to honor in a deck of playing cards. TechWomen Emerging Leaders are selected annually from among thousands of applicants. They have participated from 16 countries in the Middle East and Africa since 2011 – coming to the San Francisco Bay Area to be mentored at Silicon Valley companies and universities in a prestigious STEM program. We received a very enthusiastic response by the TechWomen mentee alumnae community to our 15 December 2014 call for participation – unfortunately, more than could be included in a card deck of just 54. It was a hard decision for the selection committee to pick from among these remarkably talented women. We are pleased to be able to honor an impressive group from Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tunsia, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. The selection committee members are:

Katy Dickinson (TechWomen Mentor, “Notable Women in Computing” team member)
Eileen Brewer (TechWomen Mentor)
Arezoo Miot (IIE TechWomen Program Director)
Jessica Dickinson Goodman (social media and design expert, “Notable Women in Computing” team member)
Jill Finlayson and Julia Lovin (Council Co-Chairs of the TechWomen Alumnae Organization, and TechWomen Mentors)

Finance and Production:

We welcome financial backers! If you would like to join us in supporting this inspiring project, please contribute here. If we do not collect enough money to produce card decks in time for the TechWomen South Africa Delegation at the end of January 2015, we will prepare a poster featuring the cards to take to South Africa, then focus on getting funding for producing the playing cards to take on the Tunisia Delegation in mid-March 2015. The “TechWomen Emerging Leader” poster will be inspired by the “Notable Women in Computing” playing cards and poster project in content and design. This project is a labor of love for the women behind it, which is why we are licensing it under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 U.S. License. We will make $0 profit from this project.

All 54 TechWomen Emerging Leader cards:

Here are the names and card assignments of the honorees. There may be text edits before production starts – space is very limited on playing cards! Jessica is creating the card and poster designs now – a sample card hand is above.

Suit	Honoree Name (TechWomen Year)	Country	Position, Company or Organization	Honors, Awards, Notable Professional Acknowledgements
*Joker*	Nisreen Deeb (2013)	Lebanon	Senior Software Developer- Mediterranean Shipping Company & MSC Cruises	Best Scout Leader of top 2 scout trainees in the Lebanese Scout Federation
Joker	Salwa Sameer Nassar (2014)	Palestine	Civil engineer – United Nations Development Programme	Member of the Board of Directors in Society of Al-Burij For Community Rehabilitation
Hearts	Queen– Sukaina Al-Nasrawi (2011)	Lebanon	Professional Staff Member, Statistics Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, PhD researcher, Information Systems	Dean’s Honor List: American University of Beirut, Department of Computer Science // Full scholarship for CS graduate studies
❤	King– Nermin Salah Ahmed Mostafa (2013)	Egypt	Lecturer at German University in Cairo	Science Technology and Development grant 2013 // Univ. Management scholarship at Oldenburg, Germany 2013
❤	Jack– Peace Asukwo (2013)	Nigeria	Country Head of IT/Information Managements at Save the Children International	1st Lady, Country IT Technician, Save the Children UK // 1st Lady, Country IT Representative, West and Central Africa for Save the Children International
❤	Ace– Seham Ahmad Abdullah Aljaafreh (2014)	Jordan	New think Academy Founder + supervisor of Mutah knowledge Station	“100 Outstanding Telecentre Women in the World” Award – Telecentre.org 2011 // “Best Influential Youth” Jordan Award 2013
❤	10- Mai Ahmed Abualkas Temraz (2014)	Palestine	CEO and Founder of Amateur Club Training Center	The First and only Female Amateur Radio Operator in Palestine // Extra Class License from the American Radio Relay League
❤	9- Heba Hosny Mohamed (2012)	Egypt	Scrum Master/ Team Coordinar, Senior Testing Engineer, at InsideTrack	Semifinalist in the in the Global Initiative for Science and Technology, GIST, competition in Turkey.
❤	8- Placidie Benamahirwe (2014)	Rwanda	Senior System Administrator/ Africa Olleh Services Ltd	Award from Ministry of Education to study three international courses
❤	7- Sylvia Mukasa (2014)	Kenya	Chief Executive Officer, GlobalX Investments Ltd, Nairobi	Finalist USAID/Kenya Feed the Future Innovation Engine Competition, GlobalX Hello Mkulima Concept 2014
❤	6- Ameni Channoufi (2014)	Tunisia	Service Manager, PKI operations, National Digital Certification Agency	Systems Security and PKI Certified
❤	5- Nassima Berrayah (2013)	Algeria	Founder and CEO @ eBlink.dz (my own startup)	JoomChrono Awards 2013: Dynamic website design // WIT MEA Awards: Best Startup Business – Dubai 2014
❤	4- Yara Maher Mohamed Ahmed (2012)	Egypt	Advanced Analytics Lead at Vodafone	Google Anita Borg Memorial Award for Women in Technology in EMEA 2014 // TEDx Speaker 2014
❤	3- Amel Chenouf (2012)	Algeria	Researcher at Advanced Technologies Development Center; CDTA	Certificate Appreciation- Test Technology Council // Outstanding volunteer- IEEE Symposium 2014
❤	2- Amal Al-saqqaf (2014)	Yemen	Teaching assistant in software engineering department, Taiz University, Republic of Yemen	Fellow in ICANN 52 fellowship program in Singapore // Internet Society member – Yemen chapter
*Diamonds*	Queen– Mekuate Tayou Christelle Carine epse Tachoula (2014)	Cameroon	Founder and CEO of “SOFT-ELITE”	Cameroon’s Representative at MONDIALOGO International Symposium // 1st girl President of CLUB MATHS at the University of Yaoundé
♦	King– Marie Claire Murekatete (2014)	Rwanda	Senior Software engineer at Rwanda Development Board and founder of Atlas computer systems	Award – best female in Computer Engineering and Information Technology // Girls In ICT Fellow
♦	Jack– Amel Ghouila (2014)	Tunisia	Bioinformatics researcher (PhD), Institut Pasteur de Tunis	EMBO grant – organisation of a bioinformatics course 2014)// Merit PhD Scholarship, High Technology from Islamic development bank (2010 – 2013)
♦	Ace– Nezha Larhrissi Taghi (2013)	Morocco	Advisor to the Minister; Ministry of Environment	Won Rally Aicha des Gazelles, Relais des Médias category 2005 // Book chapter “Advanced Cellular Network Planning and Optimization” 2007
♦	10- Rokia Abubaker Mohammed Al-beity (2014)	Yemen	HSE & Security specialist / Baker Hughes Interpries – Yemen	.
♦	9- Neza Guillaine (2013)	Rwanda	Senior Software developer at Partners In Health, Her2Voice founder, Technovation regional coordinator	Oracle Java SE Programmer Certified // Best trainer on data management in the EAC
♦	8- Dorothée Danedjo Fouba (2014)	Cameroon	Multimedia Journalist – Media Education Engineer-Blogger / Ministry of Communication	African FOSS Reporter Award 2012 // Best African ICT Blog 2012 & 2013
♦	7- Zimkhita Buwa (2013)	South Africa	BU Business Intelligence Manager Company: Britehouse	Siliconcape Exco Member – Cape Town tech entrepreneurship // SAP Mentor – one of two African SAP Mentors
♦	6- Amel Awadallah (2013)	Palestine	Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Asal Technologies, Ramallah	ISTQB certificate // CCNA Certificate
♦	5- Ogechi Blessing Onuoha (2014)	Nigeria	Technologist, Department of Systems Engineering, University of Lagos; Membership/Volunteer Relations Manager Mobile Monday	Presidential Special Scholarship for Scheme For Innovation and Development (PRESSID)
♦	4- Alaa Abdel-Razzaq Fatayer (2014)	Palestine	Charging System Engineer, Jawwal “Palestine Cellular Communication Company”	Technovation Regional Ambassador // Contributed with an IEEE publication under An-Najah National University
♦	3- Gamilah Abdulhak AL-qadhi (2014)	Yemen	PhD student –Cairo Univ.; 2012: Assistant lecturer –Department of oral biology- Univ. Science and Technology-Sana’a; 2004-2007: Dentist- Altafary dental center- Sana’a	Published in Egyptian Dental Journal 58, 2012 // Speaker at the 1st Yemeni – Turkey Dental Congress – Univ. Science and Technology- Sana’a 2012
♦	2- Racha Bia (2014)	Algeria	Pharmacist and Computer Science student (future engineer), Engineering Systems and Softwares Option	Google Student Ambassador 2012-2013 // Finalist at Arab Mobile App Challenge
Spades	Queen– Maysoun Ibrahim (2011)	Palestine	Acting Director General of Information and Communication Technology, Office of Palestinian President / PhD researcher, Information Systems	Grace Hopper Celebration Change Agent Award 2011 // Palestinian ICT Incubator Business Plan Award of Year 2006
♠	King– Adla Mahmoud Chatila (2012)	Lebanon	Information & Finance Director, Makassed Philanthropic Islamic Association of Beirut	Received Microsoft Award for ICT integration in Makassed schools // Won Board Award for reengineering project at Makassed schools
♠	Jack– Josette Tejan-Cole (2013)	Sierra Leone	Procurement and Logistics Manager, Total Sierra Leone Ltd (Petroleum Company), enrolled at Heriot-Watt University for a Petroleum Engineering Masters Degree	Employee of the year 2012 // Best Mechanical Engineer USL 2007 // Best mechanical design of an ice making machine SLBL 2007
♠	Ace– Ouafa Benterki (2012)	Algeria	Lecturer at the Higher Arab Institute of Translation, Founder of MTY Intelligent Software	President: Machine Translation Association in Algiers 2013 // Pioneer of Machine Translation 2012
♠	10- Emma Marie Ndoringoma (2013)	Rwanda	Co-founder & Technical Manager at Fidalix / Product Manager at Promelec	1st Google Student Ambassador, University of Rwanda
♠	9- Benhamou Amina (2012)	Algeria	Professor researcher in university and general manager of Sundous Energy	Trefle d’or of women in entrepreneurship in Algeria 2014 // 1st place of research in Algeria 2014
♠	8- Germaine Ashu (2014)	Cameroon	Electrical Engineer – Electricity Development Corporation – Yaounde	2011 Young Professional for Cameroon at Commonwealth Conference for Administration and Management
♠	7- Asal Ibrahim (2014)	Jordan	Researcher, Fraunhofer institute for solar energy systems	Green Talents Award, German Ministry – Education and Research 2013 // 1st place, Scientific Day at the Hashemite Univ. 2012
♠	6- Wifak Tayeb (2014)	Morocco	Information manager and PhD researcher, Ministry of Interior, Morocco	Valedictory Award for Masters in Supply Chain Management // Scholarship Award – Maastricht School of Management
♠	5- Mona Eilouti (2014)	Jordan	Product Manager, Bayt.com	Best Project Award at the Int. Undergraduate Research Conf., Dubai for “Toward an Interactive Mobile Arabic Learning Paradigm”
♠	4- Douache Djamila (2013)	Algeria	Senior International Training Engineer at ZTE Corporation	Best trainer in quality at ZTE Corporation // First lady speaker at Alumni Day at ENP
♠	3- Hanan Youssef (2013)	Egypt	Incubation Manager, OTVentures, Cairo	Certified Business Analysis Professional, Int. Institute of Bus. Analysis // Speaker- Voices Conference, Global Tech Women, 2014
♠	2- Nour Yousef Alkhalil (2012)	Jordan	Technical Team Lead, Bayt.com	IEEE Darrel Chong Award for MovIEEE initiative // 1st Place- MENA for Ubiquitous GPS Vehicle System
Clubs	Queen– Josephine Kamanthe Ndambuki (2013)	Kenya	Senior engineer, Transport and IP support, Safaricom	Top under 40 women in Kenya, Business Daily 2014 // Canadian Development Agency, Coady International Institute emerging Global change leader 2011
♣	King– Patience Mthunzi (2014)	South Africa	Senior Research Scientist and Principal Investigator, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)	TED Fellow (2015) // Most Influential Women 2013 Award, by Celebrating Excellence in Organizations Communications Awards
♣	Jack– Omnia Eteyari (2013)	Libya	Co-Founder / CEO of Mazadah for Training and Development	Emerging Leader, American Council for Young Political Leaders // Shaper at Tripoli Global Shapers
♣	Ace– Nyarumbu Trish (2014)	Zimbabwe	Principal Research Officer, Horticultural Research Institute – Department of Research and Specialist Services, Ministry of Agriculture	Fellowship – NUFIC to attend courses on Plant Genetic Resources and Seeds (India) and Climate Change Governance (Netherlands)
♣	10- Arwa Yahia Al-Eryani (2012)	Yemen	Assistant Professor at Yemen Academy for Graduate Studies	Published author of four books in information technology
♣	9- Ogo Maduewesi (2014)	Nigeria	Founder/Executive Director, Vitiligo Support and Awareness Foundation	Ashoka Fellowship // Architects of the Future Award // Netherlands Fellowship Programme NFP Scholarship
♣	8- Nomso Faith Kana (2013)	South Africa	Innovation Ambassador, Company: The Innovation Hub Management company	Appointed Delegation Leader for South Africa – World Sustainable Energy Initiative 2014
♣	7- Houda Chakiri (2012)	Morocco	CEO Enhanced Technologies, Morocco	Top ten – Sawaed contest (2008 – 2009) for innovative ideas using ICT to promote Arabic Content in the Arab World // IEEE CIST Young ICT Entrepreneur Award (2014)
♣	6- Helen Olubunmi Aderemi (2013)	Nigeria	Ph.D Work in Department of Management and Accounting, Faculty of Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria	Distinguished Lead Speaker: ‘Gender, Youth and Entrepreneurship’. Int. Conf. on Business Administration and Management, 2014
♣	5- Maria Salama (2012)	Egypt	Assistant Lecturer, British Universty in Egypt	Postgraduate Elite Scholarship in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Univ. of Birmingham, UK (2013-2016)
♣	4- Ouafae Alami (2014)	Morocco	Senior Software Engineer – Devoteam Services Maroc	Sun Certification, Java Programming // Sun Certification for Web Component Development
♣	3- Rawan abu Shmais (2014)	Palestine	BSS Radio Engineer working at JAWWAL / Palestine	Participated in International Social Camp for Children in Refugee Camps
♣	2- Mona Karamalah Hasan (2014)	Egypt	Civil infrastructure engineer – Vodafone Egypt	Managing Directors of Girls In Tech Egypt

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December 28, 2014 · 4:38 pm

New Playing Cards Honoring Women of Africa and the Middle East

As of January 2015, these cards are available for sale on Notable Technical Women.

Adla Mahmoud Chatila – Lebanon	.	Nezha Larhrissi Taghi – Morocco
Patience Mthunzi – South Africa	.	Arwa Yahia Al-Eryani – Yemen
Maysoun Ibrahim – Palestine	.	Josephine Kamanthe Ndambuki – Kenya

TechWomen Mentor Eileen Brewer, Jessica Dickinson Goodman and I are partnering with Arezoo Miot (IIE TechWomen Director), Jill Finlayson and Julia Lovin (Council Co-Chairs of the TechWomen Alumnae Organization, and TechWomen Mentors) to create a new playing card deck honoring 54 of the remarkable TechWomen Emerging Leaders – from 16 countries in the Middle East and Africa since 2011. We are building on the success and structure of the “Notable Women in Computing Card Deck” that Jessica and I developed with Professor Susan Rodger (Duke University) to develop this new deck honoring global women of STEM.

TechWomen is a professional mentorship and exchange program developed in response to President Obama’s efforts to strengthen relations between the United States and the Middle East and North Africa.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton first announced the TechWomen initiative on April 28, 2010 during President Obama’s Entrepreneurship Summit. In June 2011, TechWomen launched with 37 participants from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and the Palestinian Territories. In 2012, the program expanded to include women from Tunsia and Yemen. In 2013, the cohort doubled in size with the addition of women from Cameroon, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

TechWomen is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
TechWomen – Who We Are

The card design above is Jessica’s first draft proposal – still under discussion! It honors my 2012 TechWomen mentee and friend: Adla Chatila of Lebabon. This project is a labor of love for the women behind it, which is why we are licensing the card deck under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 U.S. License. We will make $0 profit from this project. We are still discussing how to fund production.

Thanks to the 70+ TechWomen Emerging Leaders who have already submitted their information to be considered for inclusion. I am very much enjoying my email communications with this inspiring and energetic group as we develop this exciting new project!

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