Women of Silicon Valley: The Podcast

Today, we're joined by Alex Levich.

Alex is a Product Management Executive with nearly 20 years of experience building innovative products and teams at scale. Currently, Alex is a Product Lead at Google, focused on Maps & Local Verticals, and has previously worked at Facebook.

Alex is a public speaker on digital media, product management, technology, innovation and women in tech. She was featured in Inc. magazine column on innovation, has filmed a YouTube show to showcase women leaders in tech, and has spoken at the prestigious Grace Hopper Conference, the largest conference of women in tech, about the future of Emerging Technologies and Internet Of Things.


Related Sites:

•  Women Techmakers: Product Management Series with Alex Levich:  Episode 1

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Today, we're joined by Danielle Forward.

Danielle is a Product Designer for Social Impact at Facebook. She was born and raised in Santa Rosa, California, and moved to San Francisco to attend college. After ten years of paying her way through college part-time, she graduated as valedictorian with her BFA in Interaction Design from California College of the Arts. During college, she had two internships at Facebook, both on separate teams for Internet.org.

Danielle is also the founder of Natives Rising, an organization that highlights Native American role models in tech and provides mentorship, community, and networking opportunities for Natives in tech and Native students.


Related Sites:

•  Danielle Forward's Q&A:  https://medium.com/women-of-silicon-valley/10-questions-with-danielle-forward-33a399ffbcfc
•  Natives Rising:  http://www.joinnativesrising.com/

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Today, we're joined by Diana Kris Navarro.

Diana is currently a software engineer at Tumblr. She was in the founding class of Girls Who Code in 2012, a hackNY fellow in 2017, and was featured in GWC’s Sisterh>>d campaign for Day of the Girl. She has previously interned at Adobe, Qualcomm and Gilt Groupe.

Related Sites:

•  Diana Kris Navarro's Q&A:  https://www.womenofsiliconvalley.org/interviews/diana-kris-navarro
•  Diana Kris Navarro's Website:  https://dianakris.com/

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Today, we're joined by Hidai Olivas-Holguin.

Hidai is a former Google intern and first-generation student in her senior year at MIT.

Related Sites:

•  Hidai Olivas-Holguin's Q&A:  https://www.womenofsiliconvalley.org/interviews/hidai-olivas-holguin

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Today, we're joined by Ti Chang.

Ti is an industrial designer passionate about designing products for women. As the co-founder and VP of Design at Crave, she is the leading voice in bringing modern sex toys to the mainstream. Her award-winning designs have helped pioneer the category of sex jewelry, de-stigmatizing pleasure products for women through aesthetic design and leading Crave to outlets such as the MoMa Design store, Standard Hotel, Goop, and Saint Laurent. Ti holds an M.A. in Design Products from the Royal College of Art in London and a B.S. in Industrial Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Related Sites:

•  Ti Chang's Q&A:  https://medium.com/@WomenOfSiliconValley/9-questions-with-ti-chang-e1491c1bde54
•  Crave's Website:  https://www.lovecrave.com/

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Today, we're joined by Lesley-Ann Noel.

Lesley-Ann is an Afro-Caribbean design educator and huge leader in the Design Thinking and Social Impact space.  Lesley-Ann is the Associate Director of Design Thinking for Social Impact at the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane University.

Lesley-Ann was a 2018–2019 Ocean Design Teaching Fellows at the d.school at Stanford University, where she co-taught a class in which students applied a design lens to address global ocean threats and propose sustainable solutions. She completed her PhD in Design at North Carolina State University. Her research focused on design thinking at a rural primary school in Trinidad and Tobago.

Related Sites:

•  Lesley-Ann Noel's Q&A:  https://www.womenofsiliconvalley.org/interviews/lesley-ann-noel
• A Designer's Critical Alphabet - Etsy:  https://www.etsy.com/listing/725094845/a-designers-critical-alphabet?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1&crt=1

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Today, we're joined by Ruth-Ann Hazel Armstrong.

She is a senior at Stanford University from Spanish Town, Jamaica, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Economics. Outside of classes, she is involved in the Stanford Black Society of Engineers, The Stanford Daily, the Caribbean Students Association, and Stanford Women in Engineering.

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•  Ruth-Ann's Q&A:  https://medium.com/caribbeantechies/4-questions-with-ruth-ann-hazel-armstrong-8ea77daa207f

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Today, we're joined by Nita Singh Kaushal.

Nita is a first-gen Indian-American engineer and founder of Miss CEO, one of the first programs of its kind to teach girls negotiation and other critical life skills. Since its founding in 2011, Miss CEO has trained over twenty thousand children, young women, and professionals all over the world. Nita is currently a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and an Instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies.

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•  Miss CEO Website:  https://www.missceo.org/
•  Nita's Website:  https://www.nitakaushal.com/

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Today, we're joined by Shana Simmons.

Shana is General Counsel at Everlaw, a cloud based e-discovery software company, where she leads the company’s global legal and regulatory affairs.  In addition to her corporate role, Shana actively mentors early-in-career professionals and aspiring lawyers. Before Everlaw, Shana served as Head of Cloud Go-to-Market Legal at Google LLC, where she was responsible for managing a team supporting Google’s growing global Cloud business.  Her ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace secured her as one of Google’s inaugural fellows for The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity. Shana was born and raised poor in the Bronx, New York, so she is very active in finding ways to help disenfranchised folks.

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•  Shana's Q&A:  https://medium.com/women-of-silicon-valley/shana-simmons-aa43934d12d

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Today, we're joined by Krystal Maughan.

She is a Caribbean immigrant and engineering Renaissance woman in film, tech, and AI. She has done a workshop at Jet Propulsion Lab, interned at Apple, and is currently a PhD student at the University of Vermont.

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•  Krystal's Q&A:  https://medium.com/caribbeantechies/4-questions-with-krystal-a-maughan-2fa2ed9ab9fe

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