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
Joan Palmiter Bajorek
Founder & Chief Partnerships Officer
Ex-Officio
President of Board of Directors
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
Mary Tomasso
Board Member,
Conversation Designer & Linguist
marytomasso.com
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
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