Gloria Bell
Gloria Bell
Head of Pathways & Communities
Along with a personal passion and commitment to equity and equality in tech and the world in general, Gloria Bell brings over 40 years of successful business operations, communications, event management, and entrepreneurial experience to her role as Head of Pathways and Communities at Anitab.org, She also serves as Philly Startup Leaders Board President.
Prior to her role at Anitab.org, Gloria provided education, inspiration, and connections to underserved groups in tech as the Founder of The Women In Tech Summit (WITS) and the Inspiring Tech Foundation.
Between her recent roles and her prior corporate career, Gloria worked with the non-profit, TechGirlz as the Events and Marketing Manager and provided freelance social media consulting services to businesses and non-profits as the Chief Digital Strategist at Bell Digital Strategies. She has been a frequent speaker on a multitude of social media and women in technology topics and a guest lecturer and Adjunct Professor of Social Media Strategy at Drexel University. She also founded Red Stapler Consulting where she worked with businesses and technology startups providing them with business process and operations consulting and social media strategy and implementation.
Gloria is known as a passionate equality in technology and business advocate, social media practitioner, entrepreneur, and volunteer. Demonstrating her commitment to the social media and entrepreneurial community, Gloria has served on the Chapter Board of Social Media Club Philadelphia, on the Philly StartUp Leaders Leadership Team, and on the board of the tech incubator Seed Philly. She has volunteered as an instructor and advisor for GirlDevelopIt, as a mentor for Lean Startup Machine and Startup Weekend, and as a lead organizer of PodCamp Philly and PodCamp East.
When she is not working to build and grow the community of women and non-binary individuals in technology, she mentors young entrepreneurs, speaks on women in technology topics, reads voraciously, grows green things, bakes, and spoils her new grandson.