Panelists will answer the question: “What does the current technology inclusion landscape look like?” We’ll explore answers to this question from both academic and industry perspectives. The goal of the panel is to help conference participants understand the state of diversity and inclusion activities across sectors.
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Héctor Beltrán
Ph.D. Candidate
UC Berkeley
Héctor Beltrán is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from M.I.T. His dissertation ethnographically investigates the circulation of emerging forms of hacking and entrepreneurship between México and the San Francisco Bay Area. His research focuses broadly on the politics of race and creative economies.
Héctor is the founder of the Latina/os and Tech Initiative at the Center for Latino Policy Research. The initiative bridges dialogue between scholars from local universities, community workers, and representatives from Silicon Valley to help critically shape relevant policies aimed at increasing the number of people of color in tech.
Marianne Cooper
Sociologist
Stanford University
Marianne Cooper is a sociologist at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Center for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership at Stanford University. She is also an affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. She was the lead researcher for Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg. She is a contributor to LeanIn.org, a contributing writer to the Atlantic, and a LinkedIn influencer. She is an author of the 2016 and 2017 Lean In & McKinsey Women in the Workplace reports on the status of women in corporate America. She is an expert on gender, women’s leadership, diversity and inclusion, financial insecurity, and economic inequality. At the Clayman Institute, she is a core team member of the Institute’s Voice & Influence program, which empowers men and women to excel professionally and provides them with the knowledge and tools to create organizations where all employees thrive. At the Center for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership, housed at the Clayman Institute, she is involved in conducting research and designing tools and solutions to increase the number of women leaders in education, industry, and government.
Jason Gong
Diversity Programs Specialist
Pinterest
Jason Gong is a Diversity Programs Specialist at Pinterest. In his role, Jason is responsible for cultivating and growing Pinterest’s internal Employee Communities and the development and integration of a D&I learning and development curriculum. He is also responsible for managing a portfolio of strategic relationships with community and industry organizations in support of Pinterest’s diversity hiring goals.
Over the last decade, Jason has held various D&I roles at Prudential, American Express and Lehman Brothers building enterprise D&I strategies focused on diversity recruitment, manager training and education, employee engagement, development and retention.
Joseph Nsengimana
Executive Director of D&I Policy, Strategy, and External Partnership
Intel Corporation
Joseph Nsengimana is the executive director of D&I policy, strategy, and external partnership at Intel Corporation. In this role, Joseph is responsible for setting the strategy, policy and external partnerships to reach the diversity and inclusion commitments that Intel set for itself. He is also responsible for implementing all pathway development Initiatives funded through the $300 million Diversity in Technology Fund that Intel established in January 2015, to reach full representation of women and underrepresented minorities at Intel by 2020, and to promote diversity in the technology and the gaming sectors.
As stronger supporter of girls’ education, Joseph co-initiated the US-Africa STEAM summer camp for girls, WiSci camp, that brought together 120 high school girls from US and eight African countries to Rwanda for a three week intensive program that exposes them high tech, art and culture, and presentation. More of these camps are planned, one in Peru this summer and another in East Africa next year.
Moderator:
Anno Saxenian
Dean
UC Berkeley School of Information
AnnaLee (Anno) Saxenian is Dean of the School of Information and she holds a joint faculty appointment in the School of Information and the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on regional economies and the conditions under which people, ideas, and geographies combine and connect into hubs of economic activity. She is a member of the Apple Academic Advisory Board, and has served as Chair of the Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (NSF-SBE).
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