Meet Our Team

Leadership | Board of Directors | Advisory Board  | Content | Audio | Mentorship

We put a lot of love and work into fostering and growing this community on a global level. Administration, representation, organization, running social media channels and global events, maintaining relationships across chapters, taking care of our mentorship programs and so much more.

Joan Palmiter Bajorek

Founder & CEO

President of Board of Directors

Maddy Apple

Chief Operations Officer

Romina Pankoke

Chief Chapters Officer

Board Member
VUX Design Lead at Vixen Labs

Kayla Pitts

Head of Membership & Marketing

Romina Pankoke

Chief Chapters Officer

Board Member
VUX Design Lead at Vixen Labs

Kesha Williams

Board Member,
Principal AWS Training Architect at 
A Cloud Guru

Renée Cummings

Board Member,
Data Activist in Residence,
University of Virginia

Leslie Garcia-Amaya

Board Member,
Global Product Partnerships,
Google

Niamh Bushnell

Board Member,
Chief Marketing Officer,
SoapBox Labs

Rebecca Evanhoe

Board Member,
Conversation Designer & Strategist, Visiting Assistant Professor,
Pratt Institute

Dr. Rupal Patel

Board Member,
Founder & CEO,
VocaliD

Colette Schabram

Board Member,
Program Manager, Alexa Domains – Knowledge,
Amazon

Vamsi Sistla

Advisor,
Director at unify

Jennie Stenhouse

Advisor, Former COO

Katie Lee

Financial Strategy Advisor,
Senior Financial Analyst at Amazon

Pete Erickson

Founder, Modev
Creator, VOICE Summit, VOICETalks

Trischa Schramm

Content Strategist,
UX Designer and Creative

Maria Spyropoulou

WiV Book Club Organiser,
Speech Systems Analyst at Eckoh