This community helped me to break out of my shell, ask questions, and be resourceful. During the second part of the program, I learned a lot about Javascript and PHP when working on the Wordpress site for CCAoA. It was a lot of scripting and front-end that we worked on, and these skills were very helpful when I continued into a summer internship!
Read MoreIt's important to have more women in tech to serve as role models for those women who don't think they fit into this space. For me personally, it was immensely helpful seeing successful women in tech because it made me believe that I too could break into tech and that I wasn't chasing some impossible dream.
Read MoreIt’s important to have more women working in tech because we need more role models for future generations to look up to. By having diverse groups of women join the tech workspace, it sends a message to all young girls across the world that with the right amount of determination and confidence, they can become strong female leaders too.
Read MoreHaving diverse teams is the key to bringing equity and balance to the world in all senses. Diverse teams bring diverse solutions to the table and this can create better innovation and an overall happier environment for everyone. If tech companies are cis-white male-dominated, their solutions and products are created from the perspective of just this demographic and therefore cannot accurately cater to the diverse world we live in.
Read MoreIt's important to have more women working in tech because it opens doors and changes the mindset of the young women/girls who are afraid of entering this field. The tech space is a very male-dominated space, and it can be nerve-wracking being the only woman in a room full of men.
Read MoreWorking with the Urban Institute enables our fellows to have hands-on experience with an organization also seeking to challenge the status quo.
Read MoreOur First witty alumni is Aisha M., a Junior at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where she’s majoring in Computer Science and Information security and minoring in Cybercrime.
Read MoreFor our third feature, we had the pleasure of speaking with Karina Cadette, VP Software Engineering at J.P. Morgan. Karina studied math and economics in college, and got into software development by joining JP Morgan’s TechConnect program. She spoke with us about how students can transition into tech careers— even if they haven’t studied the subject in college.
Read MoreIn our new series, Witty Reads we want to highlight books that inspire, educate and empower us to do better and be better. Dipali Gupta, Operations Transformation Analyst at LinkedIn and Strategic Director at the <wit> project, chimes in on her takeaways from Melinda Gate’s “The Moment of Lift”.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, September 2nd we hosted our event “One Year of the <wit> project.” We had the pleasure to host Tami Reiss as our main speaker. She is a product strategy leader with 15+ years of experience helping startups, established enterprise companies, and community profit organizations define their product strategy and set up product organizations for scale.
Read MoreLunar Le, Director of Product Management at Simon Data. Lunar obtained a degree in Communications, began her career as a designer, but now works in product management. She has worked in start-ups large and small, in different roles and industries.
Read MoreThis week we are featuring 19-year-old Amalia Torres. Amalia is a rising sophomore at Queens College where she’s studying Computer Science. She’s our last witty woman to be featured, and we are so excited for you to learn a little bit about her through this post.
Read MoreThis week we are featuring 18-year-old Jazmine Freund. Jazmine is a rising sophomore at Baruch College where she’s studying mathematics. She’s our sixth witty woman to be featured, and we are so excited for you to learn a little bit about her through this post.
Read MoreThis week we are featuring 20-year-old Angela Zhang. Angela is a rising Junior at Columbia University Computer Science. She’s our fifth witty woman to be featured, and we are so excited for you to learn a little bit about her through this post.
Read MoreThis week we are featuring 18-year-old Shafali Gupta. Shafali is a rising sophomore at Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College studying Computer Science. She’s our fourth witty woman to be featured, and we are so excited for you to learn a little bit about her through this post.
Read MoreThis week we are featuring 23-year-old Yasiris Ortiz. Yasiris is a rising junior at the City College of New York in studying Computer Science. She’s our third witty woman to be featured, and we are so excited for you to learn a little bit about her through this post.
Read MoreIn our new series, we’re interviewing women who have made their way into unexpected and multidisciplinary tech careers. For our first feature, we spoke Pam Keough, CEO of Make-A-Wish Connecticut.
Read MoreThis week we are featuring 19-year-old Rachel Tieu. Rachel is a rising junior at CUNY Hunter College in the Daedalus Honors Scholar/ Computer Science program. She’s our second witty woman to be featured, and we are so excited for you to learn a little bit about her through this post.
Read MoreThis week we are featuring 19-year-old Aisha Manasia. Aisha is a rising junior at John Jay College of Criminal Justice currently studying Computer Science and Information Security. She’s our first witty woman to be featured, and we are so excited for you to learn a little bit about her through this post.
Read MoreThis week we covered Part 2 of the fundamentals of Data Science in the Witty Tech Webinars series, introducing the most popular data science libraries through a hands-on case study of the Iris Dataset.
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