Women in the World of High Tech: Voices from Silicon Valley
The panelists, CMC grads at various career stages, work at technology firms in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. The panel discussion, moderated by Professor Frederick Lynch, will address a range of topics including: preparation for careers in tech, how to leverage past accomplishments and personal and professional networks to develop careers in tech, obstacles and challenges faced in the competitive and male-dominated culture of Silicon Valley, and approaches for problem solving, including work/life balance issues.
Candace Adelberg ’10 works at Google’s counter-abuse technology team, where she fights internet bad guys; Kristie Howard ’15 is a software engineer at Docker, Inc., a San Francisco startup that makes building and shipping applications; Mayumi Matsuno ’01 is director of product at Electric Imp, a cloud service and hardware solution that facilitates connecting devices to the Internet; and Jacinth Sohi ‘11, a product support manager at Uber, specializing in scaling the infrastructure and launching support operations for new products like UberEATS and uberPOOL. More details and biographical information about the panelists is available here.
Moderator Frederick Lynch is associate professor of government at CMC. His teaching and research focus on policy issues pertaining to inequality, workforce and occupational trends. He is currently studying how Silicon Valley and the high tech industry are responding to demands for greater workforce diversity.
The panel discussion at the Athenaeum is co-sponsored by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship as part of Entrepreneurship Week at CMC.
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