Cambia Grove’s approach can be described simply: convene, organize and connect the community; identify problems and find solutions; and catalyze innovation. Our Spring Forward with Women Leaders series touches on all these points and more. We organized the event with…
The FullConTech 2016 Play Team 3.3 came together last December to figure out how to move forward on a play for creating cross-sector partnerships related to diversity retention in the greater Puget Sound area. In their first meeting, the team…
So, you’ve read the research and know that diverse teams perform better. You diligently hire for diversity, knowing that doing so will increase the intelligence quotient of your team and thusly make your company more competitive and cutting edge...right? Well,…
There seems to be a great deal of interest in improving diversity in the tech industry—especially gender diversity. When I talk to executives in tech companies they acknowledge the issue and we spend a good deal of time on the…
Recently, I met 500 people at the movies. As the Executive Director of Techbridge Girls in Greater Seattle, I spend a lot of time encouraging girls, particularly girls of color from low-income households, to try STEM. So when one of…
In late winter of 2016, we here at Artemis Connection realized that there was wasn’t much action being taken by the startup community here in Seattle to achieve racial and gender equality. Martha Burwell, an independent consultant, and Ruchika Tulshyan,…
Meet Carey Bennett. Carey is the Chief Operating Officer and a co-founder of AreaMetrics, a company that helps stores optimize their layout to match customer preferences. The company just raised $2 million in a seed funding round led by two…
Meet Zheng Li, Director of Product at Raygun, a startup that has already won several awards in New Zealand and is making a splash in the United States. She is small in stature, but don’t let her physical size fool…
Helping girls discover the vast opportunities for them in tech is a passion of mine, so I was elated when the coordinators of Bellevue College’s Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) high school conference found my bio in the FabFems directory and…
Meet Kristi Growden. Although Kristi is not an entrepreneur today, she was in the past and has led the way for countless women who came after her. She's the executive director of Element 8, a membership organization of private accredited…