Naba Rivzi, a five time-changer of majors, author of the blog “Technically Muslim” and a Google Women Techmaker scholar is on the show today. This is a reupload because NathanIel Hawthorne said ”easy reading is...hard writing” so easy listening must be exponentially hard editing, right..

Originally published 1/14/19

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Approximate timestamps:

Approximate Timestamps:

7: From liberal arts/actual art to engineering to comp sci—Naba talks about changing her major five times.

12: Naba talks about leaving a team that founded a startup where kids can learn to program in their own language

16: Alcohol at networking events—tl:dr: don’t go.

Book mention: Brotopia by Emily Chang

21: Inventor and investors

23: Naba’s interest in data science (e.g. the human rights data analysis group)

25: Naba talks about the perpetuation of social inequality by data science and mathematics.

Book mention: Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble

28: The questionnaire.

33: She’s a Google Women Techmaker Scholar.