Tech Stories: Women Sharing Their Journeys with Nora Harris

🎉 Tech Stories: Women Sharing Their Journeys

Women Who Code Portland and LaunchCode are thrilled to present a cross-country online series focused on women in tech exchanging stories, building connections, and supporting each other in their careers. The series will be called "Tech Stories: Women Sharing Their Journeys" and it will take place the last Tuesday of the month.

Each session will feature a conversation with a woman in a senior tech role. Our speakers will talk openly about their current role, their journey, and what their day-to-day work lives are like. We will alternate speakers from the Portland and St Louis communities.

☎️ We will send out the link to a Zoom invite prior to the event.

⏰ Agenda

4:00 – 4:05 PM – Intros from WWCode Portland and LaunchCode
4:05 – 4:25 PM – Nora Harris - Shares Her Tech Journey
4:25 – 4:45 PM – Q&A from the audience

👩🏽 Our Speaker

Nora has taken her love of logic puzzles through a career in tech, politics, and not-for-profit. A graduate of LaunchCode, she is currently a Software Engineer at Tandem, a custom software development and design studio based in Chicago. Just prior, she came off of the Warren for President campaign Tech Team where she was the Product Manager of the in-house peer-to-peer texting platform, Spoke, a tool that saved the campaign over a half-million dollars, supported 5,000+ users, and sent 14 million texts in the last two weeks leading up to Super Tuesday 2020. When she's not behind her desk, you can find Nora on walks with her dog or teaching Pure Barre fitness classes. Nora believes that diversity in background and experience can strengthen the tech industry and hopes to help others find their joy in tech and bring those new voices to the table.

👩🏽‍💻 About Women Who Code

We are a global nonprofit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. Our events offer study groups, technical workshops, hackathons, networking events, panel discussions, lightning talks, and social events featuring influential tech industry experts, innovators, and investors. We help you build the skills you need to raise your professional profile and achieve greater career success. Current and aspiring coders are welcome. Join our Slack community here: https://bit.ly/wwcpdx-slack

💻 About LaunchCode

LaunchCode is a non-profit organization based in St. Louis, Missouri, that works with hundreds of companies to set up paid apprenticeships in technology for talented people who lack the traditional credentials to land a good job. For more information, please visit: https://www.launchcode.org/

🔷 Code of Conduct

WWCode is an inclusive community, dedicated to providing an empowering experience for everyone who participates in or supports our community, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, socioeconomic status, caste or creed. Our events are intended to inspire women to excel in technology careers, and anyone who is there for this purpose is welcome. We do not tolerate harassment of members in any form.

Our Code of Conduct applies to all WWCode events and online communities. Read the full version at http://www.womenwhocode.com/codeofconduct If you would like to report an incident, please reach out to one of our volunteers or submit an incident report form: http://bit.ly/wwcode-incident-report