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Anya Kanifolska’s career path in the US started with a move to New Jersey from Ukraine in 2010 to work in an internship with an IT company. After 1.5 yrs, Anya moved to California where she began to study Project Management and worked in the localization industry for 3 years as a Program Manager servicing a Fortune 100 client based in Cupertino. Recently, Anya joined a software e-commerce company as a Project Management Office Analyst where she coordinates the efforts of building products and financial reporting for investors. 

Today, she’ll discuss similarities and differences she finds with WOC, her views on modesty and queenship, and how to leverage starting a new job from home during covid-19

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Today I’m speaking With Ashley Jordan, she’s the director of operations & strategy at re:work training in Chicago.

Ashley pivoted into a non-profit, high impact workplace last November with the organization known as re:work training , & they’re on a mission to 

“make our workplaces look more like our neighborhoods.”

re:work offers a free, 8-week training & job placement program focused on tech sales.  Their candidates are predominantly black & LatinX and have non-traditional backgrounds, meaning they don’t usually have the 4 yr. degree with 3-5 years of previous experience that even entry-level roles at many tech companies require.

--on the corporate side, they work w/companies to reshape biased hiring trends and to consider their candidates.

Ashley’s motivation @ rework comes from working in a digital marketing  & social media role in  a corporate job where she was unhappy w/ the state of “the office,” & discovered how little time, talent, and treasure most companies invested in that’s diversity-equity-& inclusion), also known as “DEI.” She spent her free time volunteering at non-profits through fundraising and marketing, but truly wanted to do it full-time as a mission she could connect w/personally – so that she could create opportunity, access, and exposure for untapped communities. Their focus right now at re:work is targeting Chicago’s south and west sides. ----welcome Ashley Jordan. I’m so thrilled to finally have you here and talk about this unrelenting topic of DEI in tech.    

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-jordan-chi/
https://reworktraining.org/ 

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Today, our guest is Estefânia Barsante, a Brazilian professional career coach and psychologist with six years of HR experience and stationed in Silicon Valley. She has lived in the U.S. since 2019 and after experiencing a struggle with adapting to the US, she now coaches other ex-pats around the world on how to adapt as an ex-pat while preparing one’s mindset for work. She also has created an online community called Grow Together to connect and develop Brazilian women living abroad. 

Today she gives tips on removing self-imposed blocks, how to look for work during covid-19, and how to approach your manager to further grow into projects and work you’re aiming to stretch into.

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/estefaniabarsante/

Website: www.estefaniabarsante.com (in Portuguese)

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