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One Size Does Not Fit All: Tech Women at Work

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One Size Does Not Fit All: Tech Women at Work

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In honor of International Women’s Day, you’re invited to join us on Monday, March 11 for our next FutureTalks event, a panel entitled, “Tech Women at Work”. The panelists will reflect on how they’ve leveraged resources at their organizations, how they’ve engaged with their communities, managers, and coworkers so that they grow and thrive in their technical careers.

A quick google search will reveal a litany of articles and studies showing that nearly half of women in STEM careers leave at the mid-career point. Many of these articles conjecture at why this happens, but few take a nuanced approach to understanding the diversity of experiences that women have in their careers. During this discussion, we’ll try to shed light on this topic, aiming to better define why a one size fits all approach will not work when it comes to supporting women in tech.

We’ll be joined by an incredible panel of technologist who have taken a variety of pathways to get to where they are now. In a discussion moderated by Dr. Tanya L. Crenshaw, we will dig into how these women have navigated their professional pathways and how they help junior colleagues become members of the computing community. Acknowledging that an individual’s success is not always wholly individual, we’ll examine the organizational structures and policies that have successfully provided these women with opportunity, growth, and the space to flourish.

Doors will open at 5:30 for networking with food and drinks. The panel will begin at 6pm. We will plan to hold Q&A from 7:15-7:30pm.

About our speakers:

Moderator: Dr. Tanya Crenshaw is a Senior Software Developer at New Relic. Before her return to industry in 2015, she worked as a tenured computer science professor at a private, liberal arts university. For over a decade, she has conducted research on people’s sense of belonging in tech. She has moderated and facilitated groups in both academic and industry spaces, including multiple Grace Hopper Conference Panels. Leveraging facilitation techniques such as Affirmative Inquiry and Collaborative Loop, Dr. Crenshaw excels at helping people feel at ease and supported so that they can make their unique contributions to the goals of a group.

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