Announcements

BELMONT — August 29, 2019: Today, global nonprofit  AnitaB.org  announced Amazon’s commitment to donate $25,000 to support 10 women from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities, in attending our 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC). Amazon joins IBM who previously made a generous donation of…

BRAID Institutions are Transforming Undergraduate Computing and Driving Intersectional Gender Parity in Tech BELMONT, CA – July 15, 2019 – Global nonprofit AnitaB.org is celebrating the 5-year anniversary of the Building, Recruiting, and Inclusion for Diversity (BRAID) Initiative. The impact of this program continues to expand, seeding culture change and organizational transformation at the computer…

AnitaB.org has been supporting women technologists and leading efforts to build an inclusive tech ecosystem for more than 30 years. Beginning in 2019, the organization set out to join the women’s equity policy movement to engage powerful allies for change, to drive the AnitaB.org 365 fight for 50/50 intersectional gender parity and pay equity in…

Congratulations to our 2019 Abie Award winners! These five women have not only made exemplary contributions to their fields, but also serve as role models for future generations of women in tech. We are proud to celebrate their achievements and will present them with their awards at the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC 19), taking…

Earlier this month, the U.S. Senate Committee on Science, Commerce, and Transportation passed a voice vote of the Building Blocks of STEM Act, which seeks to provide support to young girls interested in STEM fields, particularly computer science. The bicameral, bipartisan bill was introduced by Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), who previously worked as a computer…

AnitaB.org is delighted to announce, after months of searching, consulting, and hoping, we are moving into our own office and conference space. With its state-of-the-art women’s technology training and conference center available for public use by allied organizations promoting the development of women technology leaders, the office will be a homebase for our team, women…