Leslie Garcia-Amaya, Ecosystem Partnerships Lead at Google Assistant

Let’s Talk Personal Finances Guest Speaker 

Deb Lin, Senior Associate Director of Corporate, Foundation, & Association Relations, Stanford Medicine

Let’s Talk Personal Finances Guest Speaker

Deborah Lin currently serves as the Sr. Associate Director of Corporate, Foundation, & Association Relations at Stanford Medicine, fundraising for medical research and programs. She manages strategy and relationships with global companies and foundations to align mutually beneficial philanthropic efforts for Stanford School of Medicine and Stanford Health Care, its adult hospital. With extensive experience in higher education program management and academic research fundraising, she’s passionate about the power of mentorship and education in empowering social mobility, greater access, and growth.

Prior to Stanford University, Deborah was the Associate Director of Corporate Relations at UCLA Engineering spearheading engagement and partnerships for the school with industries such as tech, aerospace, and energy. She was a founding team member of Partnership UCLA, a unit which engages alumni in furthering student career development, creating and launching campus-wide programs supporting the professional and academic development of thousands of students. Deborah also worked in the Television and Film industry for several years for companies such as Disney ABC Studios and 20th Century Fox in global marketing partnerships, production, talent management, and television development.

Kayla Pitts, Head of Membership & Marketing, Women in Voice

Workshop Facilitator 

Kayla Pitts is a professional voice artist with a background in psychology. Based out of New Hampshire, she is currently Head of Membership & Marketing at WiV. She eagerly finds storytelling and ways to transform images and events into a richer, deeper experience for our huge audience. Her creativity in images, copy, and videos have propelled our community to new heights.

Sammy Herbert, Head of Developer Experience at SixPivot

Tools for DEI in Tech Workshop Guest Speaker 

Sammy is the Head of Developer Experience at SixPivot, an Australian based consultancy specializing in .NET application development and cloud consulting. Sammy works with executives to redefine best practices for software developers. She works on everything to do with improving the developer experience from research, strategy, testing and trying again. Working a spectrum of initiatives from internal mentoring all the way to 4-day work weeks.

Sammy and her work have been recognized in the Australian Financial Review’s Best Places to Work in Technology and won numerous awards in employee flexibility and diversity & inclusion.

Sammy is passionate about community and regularly speaks at events, panels and conferences. She actively gets involved in diversity and inclusion, having previously consulted with numerous companies all of Australia on their inclusive strategies. In her personal time she’s an organizer for Muses Code JS, one of Australia’s largest coding workshop for women, non-binary and trans folk.

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Jossie Haines, Executive & Engineering Leadership Coach

Tools for DEI in Tech Workshop Guest Speaker 

Jossie Haines is an executive and engineering leadership coach focused on empowering high performing leadership through empathy and compassion. Her mission is to retain women in tech and break the statistic that 56% of women leave tech after 10-20 years by empowering engineering leaders with the effective and fair management practices and principles needed to finally more the needle.

She has spent over 22 years in the tech industry as an award winning software engineering leader at the forefront of emerging consumer technology across Silicon Valley, including management roles at Apple, Tile, Zynga and American Express.

She was most recently the VP of Software Engineering & Head of DEI at Tile where she had grown the engineering team by 45% from 29 to 55 in 5 months during COVID and led all software engineering efforts across mobile, backend, web, and QA. At Apple, she had led the Siri music team during the development of the HomePod, as well as the Siri media team who won a technical Emmy for the Siri on Apple TV integration. She is also an avid public speaker, having given over 100 talks, workshops and podcasts on retaining women in tech, engineering leadership, DEI and various technologies.

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Rebecca Evanhoe, Conversation Designer & Strategist, Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute | Co-author Conversations with Things (2021)

Working Your Side Hustle Workshop Guest Speaker 

Rebecca Evanhoe is an author, teacher, and conversation designer. With degrees in chemistry and fiction writing, she’s passionate about how interdisciplinary thinking can combine arts, humanities, sciences, and tech. She teaches conversational UX design as a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute, and co-authored Conversation with Things: UX Design for Chat and Voice (Rosenfeld Media, 2021).

@revanhoe | LinkedIn

Taly Matiteyahu, Cofounder & CEO of Blink Date

Working Your Side Hustle Workshop Guest Speaker 

Taly is the cofounder and CEO of Blink Date, an app putting the “date” back into online dating. Blink was inspired by a revelatory experience at a blackout restaurant where Taly made connections with strangers based on conversation alone, free of looks-driven assumptions. The experience sparked the thought: would people date a wider variety of people if they were able to make an emotional connection before swiping left?

Taly previously worked as a lawyer at a NYC law firm, in legal operations at Netflix and Datadog, and as a product manager at Evisort. Taly earned her Bachelor’s degree from New York University in 2011 and her Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School in 2015.

@theblinkdate | LinkedIn 

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