Global Team
Meet Our Team
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.

WiV Team

Maddy Apple
Chief Executive Officer

Tamar Brown El
Accounting Administrator

Kayla Pitts
Head of Membership & Marketing



Jade Roberts
Video Editor
Board of Directors




Kesha Williams
Board Member,
Senior Principal – AWS Cloud Residency at
Slalom


Cathy Pearl
Board Member,
Design Manager on Google Assistant at
Google





Renée Cummings
Board Member,
Data Activist in Residence,
University of Virginia


Leslie Garcia-Amaya
Board Member,
Global Product Partnerships,
Google


Jagruti Bhikha
Board Member,
Founder,
Rise Together


Niamh Bushnell
Board Member,
Chief Marketing Officer,
SoapBox Labs


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


Deborah Lin
Board Member,
Senior Associate Director of Corporate, Foundation, & Association Relations,
Stanford Medicine


Dr. Rupal Patel
Board Member,
Founder & CEO,
VocaliD


Colette Schabram
Board Member,
Program Manager, Alexa Domains – Knowledge,
Amazon
Advisory Board


Nieves Ábalos Serrano
Advisor, Previous C-Suite
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Monoceros Labs


Ayesha Afzal
Advisor, Researcher


Steve Ardire
AI Startup Advisor, ‘The Merchant of Light’


Akanksha Bhasin
Advisor, Technical Community Evangelist Symbl.ai


Damien Dabrowski
Advisor, Conversation Designer, Writer, Teacher


Jessica Higginbotham
Advisor, Director and Freelance Voice Over Artist


Dilek Karasoy
Advisor, Product Marketing Director


Katie Lee
Financial Strategy Advisor,
Senior Financial Analyst at Amazon


Bianca Nieves
Advisor, VP of Growth at Arist


Marily Nika
Advisor, Lead AI Product Manager at Google


Tania Peitzker
Advisor, Technologist & Author; Adjunct Prof for Metaverses & Cognitive Interfaces


Shyamala Prayaga
Advisor, Senior Software Product Manager at NVIDIA


Sabrina Riedel
Advisor, Senior Business Development Manager at Amazon Alexa ANZ


Vamsi Sistla
Advisor,
Director at Nike, Inc


Jennie Stenhouse
Advisor, Former COO


Nandini Stocker
Advisor, Head of Content & Conversational Commerce Design at Flipkart


Divya Vellanki
Advisor,
Application Developer III
Global Content Team


Maria Spyropoulou
WiV Book Club Organiser,
NLU Developer at Cerence


Chiara Martino
WiV Editor,
AI Conversation Designer and Knowledge Engineer at Assist Digital