Summit Speakers
Catherine Ashcraft
Catherine Ashcraft's research and teaching has focused on a number of issues related to gender, race, and class in a variety of educational and organizational contexts. As a research scientist for NCWIT, she conducts research into effective practices for increasing women's participation in information technology careers.
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Carleen Beste
As manager of Corporate Citizenship, Carleen Beste is responsible for the development and implementation of Northrop Grumman's Corporate Citizenship strategic plan and programming which includes K-12 education, troops and veterans, environmental stewardship, employee volunteer initiatives and company's philanthropic endeavors.
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Maureen Biggers
Maureen has more than 30 years of experience working with college students, faculty, and professionals in the areas of student retention, leadership, teams, diversity, and broadening participation in computing.
Matthew Blakely
Born and raised in and around Chicago, Matt Blakely has more than 14 years of experience working with private and corporate foundations. Since October 2005, Matt has coordinated the foundation and corporate giving programs of Motorola and Motorola Solutions Foundation.
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Colin Bodell
As vice president of Website Application Platform & Builder Tools, Colin Bodell leads the development and operations of the Amazon website platform used worldwide by Amazon.com retail, subsidiaries and enterprise partner sites. Bodell also leads the team responsible for Amazon internal development tools and deployment systems.
Eric Bradford
Eric T. Bradford is the Managing Director of the Information Technology Research Institute within the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. Mr. Bradford holds two degrees from the Walton College, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration awarded in 1988 and a Masters of Information Systems which he earned in 2004.
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Renata Colitti O'Day
As a Senior Engineering Manager, Renata leads software engineering teams through the product engineering lifecycle, for the Fibre Channel and IP Network Operating Systems. " I create effective organizations built on teamwork, loyalty, respect, motivation, and consistently delivering on aggressive goals.
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Jan Cuny
Since 2004, Jan Cuny has been the Program Officer for the CISE Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program at the National Science Foundation.
Patricia Deyton
Patricia H. Deyton is the Director of the Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO), the internationally recognized research arm of the Simmons School of Management addressing gender, diversity and organizational effectiveness.
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Rebecca Dohrman
Rebecca Dohrman is Assistant Professor of Communication at Maryville University in St. Louis. Dr. Dohrman received her BA and MA degrees from St. Louis University and her PhD in Organizational Communication from Purdue University in 2010.
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Wendy DuBow
Wendy DuBow has worked on issues of social justice her entire career. At NCWIT, she serves as the evaluator of NCWIT’s many outreach and educational publications. The data she collects helps NCWIT understand how and to what extent its resources work to advance its mission.
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Carol Dweck
Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., is a leading researcher in the field of motivation and is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford. Her research focuses on why students succeed and how to foster their success.
Ben Eater
Ben Eater is the Lead Exercise Developer at Khan Academy, a non-profit education platform dedicated to providing a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
David Evans
David Evans has taught two large open courses for Udacity, including an introductory Computer Science course that enrolled more than 265,000 students from over 180 countries, ranging in age from six months to 88 years, from truck drivers to neurosurgeons, chefs, and math professors.
Renee Fall
Renee Fall is project manager of the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE), based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned a Master's degree from Harvard Divinity School and is pursuing a doctorate in higher education research, policy, and leadership at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Ruthe Farmer
Ruthe Farmer has focused her efforts on increasing girls’ participation in technology and engineering since 2001. As Director of Strategic Initiatives, she provides strategic planning and direction, fund development, and cultivation of new partnerships for NCWIT.
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Jeffrey Forbes
Jeff Forbes works at the National Science Foundation as a Program Director for the Education and Workforce Cluster in the Division of Computer and Network Systems, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
Paula Golden
As Executive Director of the Broadcom Foundation and Director of Broadcom Corporation Community Affairs, Paula Golden is responsible for all aspects of the Broadcom Foundation, which includes funding education and research initiatives in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) worldwide.
Amy Gurley
Amy Gurley is the Global Program Lead for Bank of America's Women in Technology and Operations (WIT&O) advocacy group.
Wendy Hawkins
Wendy Hawkins is Executive Director of the Intel Foundation.
Tony Hey
As Vice President in Microsoft Research, Tony Hey is responsible for worldwide university research collaborations with Microsoft researchers. Hey is also responsible for the multidisciplinary eScience Research Group within Microsoft Research.
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Maggie Johnson
Maggie Johnson is Director of Education and University Relations for Google.
Shalini Kesar
Shalini Kesar is Assistant Professor in Information Systems, department of CSIS, Southern Utah University (SUU).
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Dalene King
Dalene King is a Global Diversity & Inclusion Manager at Microsoft where she has worked for more than 13 years. Throughout her tenure, she has been a passionate driver of diversity and inclusion across many roles within Staffing, HR, and the business.
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Martha Kosa
Martha Kosa has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Tennessee Technological University since 1993.
Lynette Kvasny
Lynette Kvasny received her Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems from the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. Her research focuses on how and why historically underserved groups appropriate information and communication technologies.
Michael Lach
Michael Lach is the Director of STEM policy and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute.
Elsa Macias
Elsa Macias, Ph.D. consults on research and policy projects that focus on increasing excellence and equity in education and for women. Dr. Macias was previously at the University of Southern California where she focused on data-based decision-making in higher education. Prior to that, she directed the research agenda on information technology policy at the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI).
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Scott McCrickard
Scott McCrickard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, and a member of Virginia Tech's Center for Human-Computer Interaction.
Jacqui Meyer Brabants
Jacqui Meyer Brabants has been with Bloomberg L.P. for 20 years and is currently the Head of the R&D Internal Systems Department. Jacqui started her career with Bloomberg after graduating from Binghamton University with a BS in Management and a concentration in Marketing.
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Pooja Nath Sankar
Pooja (Nath) Sankar is the founder and CEO of Piazza, the leading social learning platform for students and teachers in higher education.
David Neal
David is a social and behavioral psychologist specializing in behavior change. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne and completed his post doctoral training at Duke, where he was Director of the Social Science Research Laboratories. David was a professor of psychology at USC before founding Empirica Research, a social and consumer firm specializing in behavior change.
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Lisa Neal-Graves
In response to the critical importance of the Intel's relationship with the National Center of Women & Information Technology, Intel is sponsoring Ms. Neal-Graves as an Executive on Loan to focus on developing programs to support the attraction and retention of women in computing. Ms. Neal-Graves will operate from Intel's offices in China and Colorado and work directly with NCWIT CEO, Lucy Sanders.
Hadi Partovi
Hadi Partovi is the co-founder and president of Code.org. A Harvard graduate in computer science, he began his career in the 1990s at Microsoft where he was the group program manager for Internet Explorer, and later the general manager of the MSN Portal.
Nóirín Plunkett
Nóirín Plunkett is a jack of all trades, and a master of several. By day, she works for Eucalyptus Systems, as a geek<->English translator, and general force multiplier. She's passionate about community, communication, and collaboration.
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Jill Ross
Jill Ross is Director, Workforce Alliance and Pacesetters Program for the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) www.ncwit.org. NCWIT is a growing coalition of over 300 prominent corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and nonprofits working to increase women’s participation in information technology (IT).
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Jean Sammet
Jean E. Sammet is a retired computer scientist and programmer who is best-known for her work on FORMAC, the first widely used general language and system for manipulating nonnumeric algebraic expressions.
Lucy Sanders
Lucy Sanders is CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and also serves as Executive-in-Residence for the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Bobby Schnabel
Dr. Robert Schnabel is Dean of the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, where he leads a multi-campus school of over 100 faculty with graduate and undergraduate degrees in computer science and informatics.
Rose Schooler
Rose Schooler is the General Manager of the Communications and Storage Infrastructure Group (CSIG) within the Data Center and Connected Systems Group (DCSG) at Intel Corporation. Her organization is responsible for delivering platform solutions for the communications infrastructure and storage markets segments.
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Michael Schwern
Michael G Schwern is a veteran Perl and Open Source Software developer who speaks at conferences on subjects such as software testing, geek socialization, and using toys to teach advanced computer science concepts. His testing and infrastructure software is used by thousands of companies, quietly saving millions by identifying bugs before they become problems.
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Sharon Simmons
Sharon Simmons is the Computer Science Department Head at James Madison University. Dr. Simmons received her B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern Mississippi and her PhD in Computer Science from William and Mary.
Tommy Simpson
Tommy Simpson, a Director within AT&T's Information Technology organization, is responsible for leading MATREX, AT&T's college new hire and intern development program. The MATREX program is a national 18 month entry-level IT hiring program composed of highly talented and motivated individuals with various strategic IT skills.
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Stacy Smith
Stacy L. Smith's research focuses on children's responses to mass media portrayals (television, film, video games) of violence, gender and hypersexuality.
Sheryl Sorby
Sheryl Sorby is Visiting Professor in the Engineering Education and Innovation Center at The Ohio State University and Professor Emerita of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University. She recently served as Program Director within the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation.
Eileen Sweeney
Eileen, now with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, led the Motorola Foundation in its mission to benefit the communities in which it operates around the world, by making strategic grants, forging strong partnerships, fostering innovation, and engaging stakeholders.
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Valerie Taylor
Dr. Valerie Taylor is the holder of the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professorship and is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. She was designated as a Regents Professor for 2011-12 by the Texas A&M System Board of Regents in November of this year.
Telle Whitney
Dr. Telle Whitney has served as President and CEO of ABI since 2002. Whitney has 20 years experience in the semiconductor and telecommunicatins industries. She has held senior technical management positions with Malleable Technologies (now PMC-Sierra) and Actel Corporation, and is a co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.
Cassidy Williams
Cassidy Williams is a computer science undergraduate at Iowa State University. With four internships under her belt (including Microsoft and General Mills) and one more upcoming (at Intuit in San Francisco), she keeps busy with heavy coursework in school and additional extra-curricular activities.
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Lee Wills-Irvine
Lee Wills-Irvine leads Global Diversity & Inclusion at Qualcomm. Her mission is to leverage employee talents and capabilities for innovation and productivity in a manner that supports organizational values. Additionally, she is responsible for diversity-related external communication and outreach.
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Cameron Wilson
As Director of Public Policy for ACM, Cameron Wilson develops and oversees ACM's public policy agenda with specialized focus on technology policy, including information technology research and development funding, computing education, technology issues related to intellectual property, privacy issues, and security and reliability of computing systems.
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Mike Younkers
Mike Younkers, Senior Director of Systems Engineering for Cisco’s US Federal team, directs teams of system engineers to support a $2B business in civilian, defense and intelligence areas. He has 20 years of experience designing, deploying and maintaining large-scale enterprise and wide area networks for the US intelligence community.
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