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Pride Month: LGBTQ+ Representation in Tech

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June 30, 2020

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For the past few months one thing that has held us together is community. Alley’s HQ is based in NYC where one of the largest pride parades is celebrated and was inaugurated. It is hard to imagine a year ago was Stonewall's 50th anniversary. Although we cannot be together for pride this year we decided to celebrate virtually. Join us and our panel as we discuss how we can create more visibility in tech and entrepreneurship for the LGBTQ+ community, how to empower great LGBTQ leaders, businesses, and entrepreneurs, what you can do to seek out businesses that support equality and how to make your support visible as an ally.

Meet The Panelists:

Rebecca Miller-Webster

Founder

Write/Speak/Code

Rebecca Miller-Webster is an engineering manager, software engineer, and educator. She is the founder of Write/Speak/Code to promote the visibility and leadership of technologists with marginalized genders through peer-led professional development. Rebecca has been developing software professionally for over a 15 years and is currently the Head of Engineering at Equilibria. She is currently writing a book on leadership, power, and belonging. Rebecca's hobbies include playing guitar in a punk ensemble, cuddling pugs, & wearing all the colors.

Angelic Williams

Founder and CEO

MyUmbrella

Angelic is a Programming Board Member at StartOut, a nonprofit accelerator that supports LTBTQ+ entrepreneurs as well as the Founder and CEO of MyUmbrella; an online platform that serves as a creative outlet for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Unlike other platforms, we invite members of the community who want to share their stories the opportunity to do so, by joining our Writers Cohort.

Prior to founding her company, she was an architectural designer for various civic buildings and the lead developer manager for affordable and workforce housing projects in the Bay Area and New York City.

Viet Vu

Economist

Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship

Viet is an Economist at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship in Ryerson University in Toronto. He leads the institute's work on the digitization of work as well as scale-up companies. Viet is also an active player in queer activism. He has facilitated discussions with high school students, and contributes to the largest dedicated legal database on queer rights in the world, Equaldex, a topic he has discussed in a TEDx talk. Viet holds a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of British Columbia.

Zoe Gagnon

Engineering Practitioner, Leader, & Mentor

I, Zoe, am an engineering practitioner, leader, and organizer. I'm at my best when I am helping people reach higher levels of their own potential. I'm as comfortable mentoring engineers through a tricky bit of code as I am guiding an engineering team towards iterative, continuous value delivery. I know I'm succeeding when people are more awesome because of me.

Takiya Anthony-Price

Founder & Executive Producer

One On One Stream

Brooklyn born, Berlin trained, Boston-based .

Takiya is an emotional intelligent Culture Curator focused on creating meaningful and intuitive experiences through innovative tech - simply, she likes to build space for people that don't have a seat at the table, and as Alley’s Cambridge Community Manager, she’s done just that, fostering a community of inclusivity and innovation.

Nothing about Takiya’s career trajectory has been linear, and honestly for years she thought that was problematic—but has quickly realized that her experience in all levels of business have given her the ability to view things objectively and execute with precision on all projects ranging from Digital Marketing to UX design.

Our Partners:

Verizon 5G Labs

Verizon's 5G Labs works with startups, academia and enterprise teams to build a 5G-powered world. We work on 5G trials, hackathons, industry partnerships, prototyping challenges and more.

Write/Speak/Code

Write/Speak/Code is a 501c3, tax-exempt non-profit that hosts an annual conference and meetup events designed to help you fully own your expertise through writing, speaking, and open source. We're on a mission to promote the visibility and leadership of technologists with marginalized genders through peer-led professional development.

Brookfield Institute

The Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship tests assumptions with credible research to ensure Canadian governments and businesses are focusing on the most relevant issues and opportunities for Canada.

Our multi-disciplinary teams focus on forward-looking work streams which we believe are critical to Canada’s future economic success. They build collaborative relationships with our partners to generate rigorous research, propose unconventional approaches and pilot ideas to explore how Canada’s innovation economy can include people of different ages, incomes and backgrounds.

Startout.org

StartOut’s mission is to increase the number, diversity, and impact of LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs and amplify their stories to drive the economic empowerment of the community. Almost every LGBTQ+ entrepreneur has encountered unequal access to key resources needed to advance their business. In 2009, Darren Spedale, Bryan Janeczko, Joe DiPasquale, and Lorenzo Thione founded StartOut, an LGBTQ non-profit to promote LGBTQ equality and combat discrimination in the business world. Since then, StartOut has become a champion for the LGBTQ+ entrepreneurial community providing the resources entrepreneurs need to succeed, promoting the successes of our community, and researching the economic impacts of LGBTQ+ discrimination.

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June 30, 2020

10:00 am

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