Growing up the daughter of two lawyers, Carla Brodley, dean of Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, says she rebelled against parental advice to be a math major.
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When Rebecca Stavick moved from a very small town in South Dakota to Omaha in 2010, she didn’t know a soul.
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Comebacks are a good thing.
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Music drove her into technology. Fairness keeps her here.
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“The Voice” has blind auditions for singers who aspire to be the next national singing sensation.
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“I was born in the middle of nowhere.”
That is how Sophia Mahfooz, the 25-year-old chief operating officer of Girls In Tech, describes the start of her life. Since 1992, she has masterfully moved from her beginnings in Afghanistan near Peshawar, Pakistan to a global position for a non-profit based in Silicon Valley where she can change the lives of young women around the world.
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“We all know there’s a problem,” said Amanda Signorelli, CEO of TechWeek, introducing the Women In Tech breakfast recently at the Chicago Techweek Growth Summit.
That was the understatement of the week, perhaps of the year.
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It’s no secret that the tech industry is disproportionately male. In 2014, just 18 percent of Bachelor degrees in Computer Science were given to women, down from a high of 37 percent in 1984.
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Jessica Lawrence is the executive director of the New York Tech Meetup, which hosts monthly events that cater to over 39,000 members in New York’s technology community. She is also part of Girls Who Code‘s brain trust. Before taking on those tasks, Lawrence served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council in Southern California. Her leadership experiences have introduced her to countless girls and women with passionate interests in STEM careers.
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