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WOMEN IN TECH

Metis CDS Debbie Berebichez to Women in STEM: Chase Your Dreams

 June 7, 2017

"I've helped shape the conversation," said Debbie Berebichez, chief data scientist at Metis. "It's empowered me to mentor young women and also to shape policy. At Metis, we offer a scholarship to women and minorities, so we do things actively to bring women in. I also try to recruit and hire women. Even though it's a tech company, over 60 percent of the employees at Metis are women, and they also occupy a lot of leadership roles. I always try to do things that change the conversation.

A Better World President MarySue Hansell: Getting Real With a Virtual Do-Good Game

May 30, 2017

"We saw that there was a lack of kindness, a lack of empathy ... and we thought it would be nice if we could use technology to do something about it," said A Better World President MarySue Hansell. "We thought Facebook offered a wonderful opportunity to use a large technical platform to create a vir...

EquiSeq CEO Lexi Palmer: Act Like You're Not Scared and Go at It

March 31, 2017

Lexi Palmer is CEO of EquiSeq, a biotech firm that does genetic testing of horses. Palmer was brought on as CEO by the company's founder, genetic researcher Paul Szauter, in 2015. "I was just finishing up my degree in interpersonal communications, and he told me about the company he'd started," Palm...

GIT CEO Adriana Gascoigne: More Women in Tech Means More Problems Solved

March 3, 2017

Prior to founding Girls in Tech, Adriana Gascoigne was one of the very few women working at a startup. "I'd look around the room every day and see that there was a huge problem of representation. I knew we needed to change the culture of the company to recruit more women and benefit more women, but ...

GE Digital VP Beena Ammanath: For Most Women, STEM Is an Uphill Battle

February 23, 2017

Beena Ammanath is VP for data and analytics at GE Digital. She has worked in the data analytics field for more than 20 years and serves as board director at ChickTech, a nonprofit dedicated to recruiting girls and women into the tech workforce and retaining them once they're there. Ammanath was rece...

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