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

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

Mary Tomasso
Board Member,
Conversation Designer & Linguist
marytomasso.com

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

Romina Pankoke
Advisor
VUX Design Lead at Vixen Labs

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

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

Giulia van den Winkel
WiV Reading Club Organiser

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