Julia Hirschberg is Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science and was most recently the Chair of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University from 2012-2018, serving as one of two female chairs of the department. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.  She worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Laboratories -- Research from 1985-2003 as a Member of Technical Staff and a Department Head, creating the Human-Computer Interface Research Department.  Professor Hirschberg has been active in working for diversity at AT&T and at Columbia. She has been active in supporting the Emerging Scholars program and other diversity initiatives at Columbia and has actively advocated for the further representation of minorities and women in the faculty and encouraged diversity in the undergraduate Computer Science community as well. We are so excited to share this episode with you about the importance of encouraging diversity in academic communities, and the value of creating deliberate programming to ensure the success of minority students in the field of Computer Science.

In this episode of CompilHER, we interview Chelsea Barabas, a PhD student at the doctoral program of Media, Arts, and Sciences at MIT. Barabas shares with us the Heuristics, Algorithms, and the Gatekeepers of opportunity in technology and the concept of 21st-century redlining in the technology industry. 

In this episode of CompilHER, we interview Lea Coligado, the founder of Women of Silicon Valley, who speaks with us in-depth about why diversity and inclusion is a must-have in today's tech industry and how D&I initiatives are imperative to her retention and the many colleagues around her. 

In our first episode of Season 2, Brandie Nonnecke joins us to discuss her research on tech policy, including deep fakes and AI for good. We also get her thoughts on election integrity as we approach the 2020 U.S. presidential election. 

Brandie Nonnecke, PhD is Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at UC Berkeley. Brandie has expertise in information and communication technology (ICT) policy and internet governance. She studies human rights at the intersection of law, policy, and emerging technologies with her current work focusing on fairness, accountability, and appropriate governance mechanisms for AI. She is a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She served as a fellow at the Aspen Institute’s Tech Policy Hub and at the World Economic Forum on the Council on the Future of the Digital Economy and Society. She was selected as a 2018 RightsCon Young Leader in Human Rights in Tech and received the 2019 Emerging Scholar Award at the 15th Intl. Common Ground Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society. Her research has been featured in Wired, NPR, BBC News, MIT Technology Review, Buzzfeed News, among others. Her research publications, op-eds, and presentations are available at nonnecke.com.

We are currently recording Season 2 and would love to hear feedback from our listeners! Feel free to reach us via email at [email protected]

Welcome back to CompilHER, a podcast by and for women in tech! In Season 1, we shared the stories of early career women technologists, and in Season 2 we'll be focusing on issues in tech ranging from DEI and interdisciplinary tech to ethics and social responsibility. In this quick welcome back episode, we'll discuss our ideas a little more in depth.

In this final season 1 episode, Surbhi and Maddie recap some great moments through recording season 1 of CompilHER, all we have learned, and our reflections both through this process and our past four years at college, "Senior Wisdom" if you may. We love the community we have formed through this experience, and are looking forward to finding new ways to expand CompilHER and this awesome community. 

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Dr. Rebecca Wright is a visiting professor of Computer Science and Director of the Vagelos Computational Science Center at Barnard.  She is currently on leave from Rutgers University, where she served as director of the DIMACS center and as the founding faculty advisor for the Douglass-SAS-DIMACS Computer Science Living-Learning Community for first-year Rutgers women in Computer Science.

Wright's research is primarily in the area of information security, including privacy, applied cryptography, foundations of computer security, and fault-tolerant distributed computing. Wright serves as an editor of the International Journal of Information and Computer Security and of the Transactions on Data Privacy, and is a member of the board of the Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University, a B.A. from Columbia University, and an honorary M.E. from Stevens Institute of Technology. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM.

Karina Popovich is a high school senior at Brooklyn Technical High School and an incoming freshman at Cornell University. Karina is pursuing a career at the intersection of Computer Science and Business. While facing a number of challenges in the tech world as a female and first-generation   college student, she created an organization, Connect with Tech, to provide underrepresented students with the opportunities to explore STEM. For all of her work in CS and STEM education she has been honored by the Malala Fund and received the Regional Affiliate NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award. She was also recently selected to be 1 of a 100 Amazon Future Engineers.

Feel free to connect with Karina on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karina-p-ba4827126/

www.karinapopovich.com

Vivian Shen is a senior at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University studying Computer Science. She has done research at the Columbia Creative Machines Lab, NASA, and Disney. Most of her CS career has been based around hackathons and robotics, and after a gap year she will be getting her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. She is planning to work in the field of conservation robotics, i.e. robots that automate the process of rehabilitating the environment and preventing further harm. She encourages everyone to go to hackathons and learn by doing and asking!

Feel free to connect with Vivian on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivianhshen/

Serina Chang is a senior at Columbia University studying Computer Science and Sociology. After graduation, she will be pursuing a Ph.D. in CS at Stanford University. Currently, her research interests center on natural language processing and computational social science, which she has explored as a research assistant in Kathleen McKeown's lab at Columbia. Serina is also deeply passionate about education and student diversity, and has served as a teaching assistant in CS, Co-President of Lean In at Columbia, and Academic Chair of Columbia WiCS [Womxn in Computer Science]. 

Feel free to connect with Serina on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/serina-chang/