March 2012
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WatchDecember 2011 panel on “How Educators and Entrepreneurs Can Collaborate.” From Educators & Entrepreneurs Summit: The Future of Education Technology at Microsoft NERD in Cambridge, MA.
I had a great time.
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February 2012
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Women 2.0 PITCH: 99 word recap
Hundreds of women + dozens of men = Women 2.0 PITCH, V-Day.
Incredible speakers. Inspiring entrepreneurs. Lots of new friends.
On multiple occasions, I was asked by female attendees if I now understood what its like to be the gender minority at tech events.
“No clue,” I said by the fifth time.
“Why?” they asked.
“Because you asked me how I’m doing.
We rarely ask.
You...
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Letter to a (civic) angel
On January 8, 2011, in the horrific Tucson shooting, we lost one of our finest citizens in Christina Taylor-Green, the nine-year-old who had just been elected to student council.
Last month, around the one-year anniversary of that fateful day, I wrote a letter to her family, sharing a few stories and experiences I had rarely shared with anyone.
After receiving a kind email in response from...