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September 1, 2014 · 9:34 pm

US-India Panel Hosted by IIE at LinkedIn

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I enjoyed hearing the “Roundtable on Strengthening Educational Ties between India – U.S.” panel from Gujarat last week.  The event was hosted by the Institute of International Education, with Trish Tierney of IIE-SF as the moderator. The panel was held at the LinkedIn San Francisco offices when registration numbers outgrew the original venue.  I was particularly interested in the discussion about the importance of entrepreneurship and mentoring in India.

The subject of women in technology came up several times. My favorite quotes:

  • “We are focused on women because men would happen in any case.”
  • “For women, Engineering is the last frontier.”

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June 30, 2014 · 7:39 am

Long Time Lady Friends

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Theresa Halula and I have been friends since our early twenties – some time ago (ahem). We worked together at Sun Microsystems and our kids have grown up together. We are both dedicated gardeners – and Theresa has a second (third?) career as a certified horticulturalist. It was a delight for Theresa, Dan, Thomas, and Clara to be part of my son Paul’s college graduation celebration this weekend.

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June 24, 2014 · 8:02 am

TechWomen 2014 Application Submitted!

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I just submitted my application to be a 2014 TechWomen mentor. I have been supporting this excellent program of the US State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs since 2010 and I am eager to participate again. I hope to host an Emerging Leader from Africa or the Middle East in my new company Everwise in San Francisco. I want to expand my network of sisters in STEM!

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June 8, 2014 · 5:28 pm

New Job: Everwise Vice President – Mentoring

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Last week, I started as the new Vice President – Mentoring at Everwise in San Francisco. I am delighted to join a team helping progressive, successful corporations and non-profits to create world-class mentoring programs. My first big project will be with InovAtiva and entrepreneurs in Brazil!

Here is some of what drew me to Everwise:

  • Everwise connects professionals with the people and insights that can help them succeed at every stage of their career.
  • Everwise has re-engineered workplace mentoring using best practices culled from industry’s most effective mentoring programs and real-world experience guiding more than 60,000 successful mentoring partnerships over the course of 20 years.
  • The Everwise platform is built on the unified view that data, technology and workforce science can dramatically improve the way organizations develop their people.
  • Everwise has offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Minneapolis.

My new position at Everwise coordinates well with my ongoing activities. I will continue as the Chief Operating Officer for People to People (pro bono), as a volunteer for the TechWomen mentoring program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, as an accredited EfM Mentor, and as a member of the Anita Borg Institute Advisory Board.

My husband John and I will be commuting to work together from San Jose to SF, where he is the Principle Architect, Open Storage at EVault (Seagate). Since our son Paul is graduating this month from Foothill College and transferring to San Jose State University in September, he can get to class more easily on public transit.

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May 19, 2014 · 9:11 am

“Notable Women in Computing” Poster Accepted!

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I am glad to report that the “Notable Women in Computing” poster submission made by Dr. Susan Rodger (Professor of the Practice in the Computer Science Department, Duke University) and me for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing has been accepted for presentation.  GHC14 will be 8-10 October 2014 in Phoenix, Arizona. Our poster is based on the CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project – Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing I have been working on since 2009.

I am also delighted that my daughter Jessica Dickinson Goodman also had her poster “The Source App: Connecting Consumers to the People Who Make Things” accepted for GHC14. Jessica and I have been GHC roommates every year since 2007.

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May 14, 2014 · 4:13 pm

Women of Vision, King Abdullah of Jordan, TechWomen

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Last week, I sat with the Anita Borg Institute Advisory Board at a gala celebrating Women of Vision, and in particular, the well-deserved award for Leadership honoring Dr. Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College here in California. I am dating myself to write that I remember when Mudd was an all-male institution. Maria and her team have grown Mudd from 10% women in Computer Science to 40% – and have kept that 40% stable for years. This unique accomplishment deserves some celebration! Maria is amazing – she is also #17 on Fortune’s list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders.

The other inspiring winners were Tal Rabin (Research Staff Member and Manager cryptographic research, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) for Innovation; and Kathrin Winkler (Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, EMC Corporation) for Social Impact. Bank of America won as the 2014 Top Company for Women in Computing.  Also attending the event were many of my sister mentors who have served in the U.S. State Department’s TechWomen program for scientific and technical women in the Middle East and Africa, including: Jameeka Aaron (of Lockheed Martin), Larissa Shapiro (of Mozilla), Andrea Leszek (of Salesforce), and Rahima Mohammed (of Intel).

Yesterday, my husband John and I drove to Berkeley to see His Majesty, King Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein of Jordan speak at International House on the University of California campus. I was pleased to see the slide saying that 30% of Jordan’s tech industry workers are women – better than the 26% in America as of 2013.

I have never seen the King in person before, although last year I was honored to meet his cousin, Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan. Also, when my daughter Jessica and I were on the bus to Petra in Jordan, we watched “The Royal Tour“, a video featuring King Abdullah riding his motorcycle to show off his country. Yesterday’s talk is yet-another event that entered my life because of TechWomen. Mentor Lucie Newcomb (of NewComm Global Group) posted information about the event – including how to get tickets.

TechWomen 2014 mentor sign ups open soon! Please consider expanding your mind, experience, and heart to join us!

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May 7, 2014 · 9:34 pm

Famous Women in Computing, ABI Advisory Board

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Today, the Anita Borg Institute Board of Advisors met, hosted by Cisco in San Jose, California. What an inspiring and accomplished group of technical leaders! It is an honor and pleasure to serve with them.

In the meeting, Elizabeth Ames (ABI Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Alliances) passed out copies of a card listing Famous Women in Computing from the 1840s -2000s. The card honors Ada Lovelace, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Grete Hermann, The ENIAC Programmers, Katherine Johnson, Grace Hopper, Erna Schneider Hoover, Lynn Conway, Irene Grief, Radia Perlman, Adele Goldberg, Anita Borg, Frances Allen, and Deborah Estrin.  The information for the card came from the CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project – Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing – a project I have been working on with a great team since 2009. Such a pleasure to see our work in print! The cards will be distributed at tomorrow’s Women of Vision awards.

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