Abie Award Winners Announced

Thank you to #GHC22 Emerald Sponsor Wells Fargo for their partnership & support! 🤗

@wellsfargo works to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion by helping ensure that all people across their workforce, communities, and supply chain feel valued and respected and have equal access to resources, services, products, and opportunities to succeed. 🙌

In 2021, they launched the Banking Inclusion Initiative, which is a 10-year commitment to help unbanked individuals gain access to affordable banking services. 💰

“It is so important that we bring unbanked individuals, many of whom are people of color, into the formal banking system and help provide meaningful paths toward economic advancement.” - Darlene Goins, Head of Banking Inclusion Initiative at Wells Fargo

Check out our list of sponsors & be sure to register as registration closes on August 10th!
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We're so thankful to have #GHC22 Emerald Sponsor, Google's support!🤗

@Google fosters a sense of belonging by tackling barriers through meaningful action on key issues such as racial equity, disability inclusion, gender equity, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and Veteran inclusion. 🤝

In 2021, they launched the Google.org Impact Challenge for Women and Girls, which focused on gender inequity. 👩‍💼

The challenge, launched in partnership with @vitalvoices and Project Everyone, was an open call to organizations that create pathways to prosperity for women and girls.

Thirty-four organizations were selected and received between $300,000 and $1 million in funding, plus opportunities for mentorship and additional support from Google. 😲
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Meet @nehanaar, Technology Entrepreneurship Abie Award Winner! 🎉

The Technology Entrepreneurship Abie Award is given to a builder of technology ventures, who transforms markets by implementing, developing, or promoting technology, creative processes, or new business models. 💪

Neha is an Indian American technology entrepreneur, a co-founder, former Chief Technology Officer, and current board member of @confluent_inc, a public technology company. 👩‍💻

As a @linkedin software engineer, she helped develop the open source messaging system Apache Kafka, that's now used by more than 80% of the @Fortunemag 500. 😲

In 2014, she co-founded Confluent, which helps organizations process large amounts of data on Apache Kafka.

Neha has been listed as one of America’s Top Self-Made Women by @forbes, Forbes’s Top 50 Women In Tech, @mitpics Tech Review’s Innovators under 35 and @fastcompany’s 100 Most Creative People. 🤩

She grew up in Pune, India, studied Computer Science at @georgiatech and today advises & invests in numerous technology startups. 🙌

She is sure to inspire during her session at #GHC22 in September!
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We'd like to extend some thanks to our #GHC22 Emerald Sponsor, @Ford! 🤗

Ford has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to Diversity and Inclusion by endorsing and leveraging the power of their variety of Employee Resource Groups. 🤝

These groups provide opportunities for employees who share similar characteristics or life experiences and desire to use those similarities to create cross-functional workplace connections, provide professional development and advance business objectives. 😃

They have also have had a Supplier Diversity Development Program since 1968, one of the first programs of its kind in the United States that provided business opportunities to diverse communities that had been historically, socially and economically disadvantaged. 🙌
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Meet Dr. Kris Dorsey, Emerging Leader Abie Award Winner! 😃

In honoring the memory of the first female lead of an engineering school at a major U.S. research university, Denice Denton, the Emerging Leader Abie Award is given to a junior, non-tenured faculty member for high-quality research and significant impact on diversity. 🤗

Kris is an associate professor in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences at @Northeastern University. 👩‍🏫

Her current research interests include reconfigurable, novel morphology, active soft sensors, and the design of soft sensors for soft robot actuators and wearable medical and rehabilitation devices. 🏥

Previously, she was a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the @ucberkeleyofficial and the @ucsandiego a faculty member in the Picker Engineering Program at @SmithCollege, and an MLK Visiting Associate Professor at the Media Lab at @mitpics. 🙌

She graduated from @CarnegieMellon University with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and earned her Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from @OlinCollege. 👩‍🎓

She’ll be presenting at #GHC22 in September!
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Please join us in thanking our #GHC22 Emerald Sponsor, @Disney! 😃

Disney continues to push for diversity and inclusion within their own respective areas of people, culture, content, and community as they recognize the importance of turning those intentions into actions. 💪

They've developed spaces where diverse voices and stories can be elevated with programs such as their 'Reimagine Tomorrow' platform.🙌

“At Disney, we amplify underrepresented voices and untold stories and champion a multitude of perspectives, recognizing that we are all greater than a single story and we all deserve to feel seen, heard and understood." - Latondra Newton, Senior VP, Chief Diversity Officer
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Meet Paula Coto, (@pau.coto) Change Agent Abie Award Winner! 🥳

The Change Agent Abie Award honors an outstanding international woman or non-binary technologist who created or expanded opportunities for girls and women in technology.

Paula is the Executive Director of @chicasentec, an NGO which seeks to reduce the technology gender gap. 🤗

CET promotes a cultural change by generating evidence on digital gender gaps, training and supporting adolescent women, and strengthening the ecosystem that makes their academic and professional development possible, reaching over 11,600 women in 18 countries of Latin America. 😲

Formerly, Paula worked at CIPPEC leading the Educational Innovation and Justice Laboratory researching and providing technical assistance in the use of ICTs in schools to expand the development opportunities for students in Argentina. 👩‍🏫

Paula teaches postgraduate courses on educational policy, STEM, and gender and is also the co-author of "Achievable Inspirations: 15 Outstanding Education Policies in Latin America." 📖

Hear from Paula and other Abie Award Winners at #GHC22!
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