Communities Program Manager
My role and my passion are to help technical women connect with each other and find resources, support, and opportunities. I am responsible for the ABI Ambassador Program, for our expanding online communities, and for the webinars co-sponsored by Invent Your Future and the Anita Borg Institute.
I bring to ABI over 25 years of industry experience in graphics and multimedia software development, technical training, and education services management. My first Grace Hopper Celebration for Women and Computing (GHC) was in 1994, and I drew strength and inspiration from the women there. My experiences at GHC and my work on the steering committees of women’s groups at Silicon Graphics (SGI) and Cadence Design Systems made me a champion of the Anita Borg Institute and its programs, and in 2006 I joined the new ABI Ambassador Program.
As a software engineer, I had always been the first or — if I was lucky — the second female engineer on my team. Today I still meet too many technical women in the same situation. So when I decided to follow my heart and change my career direction, ABI was the first place I called. In October 2007 I began working in the ABI office as a volunteer Program Consultant. And now it is my great pleasure to be a member of the ABI staff.
I continue to be inspired by the women I meet through ABI events, our Ambassador Program, our online community, and the volunteers who contribute so much to the Grace Hopper Celebration. Connect with me on LinkedIn or Facebook, catch my ABI updates on Twitter, or introduce yourself on the LGBT email list. Check out more ways to connect with the ABI community at http://anitaborg.org/community/connect.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, - President and CEO
- Catherine S. Kirkman, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati - General Counsel
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Jerri Barrett, Director of Marketing
- Alexandra Krasne, Development & Industry Partner Manager
- Deanna Kosaraju, Director of Programs
- BJ Wishinsky, Communities Program Manager
- Caroline Simard, Director of Research
- Kim McLeod, Program Associate
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Associate
- Kathy Gee, IT Project Specialist
- Amy Clark, Office Manager/Executive Assistant
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College - Board Chair
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund - Vice-Chair
- Margaret Ashida, Director, Talent - IBM Software Group
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund
- Francine Berman, Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego and Fellow, ACM
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
- Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior VP Ethernet and Wireless Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Wayne Johnson, Vice President, University Relations, Hewlett-Packard
- Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
- Cheryl Shavers, Former Undersecretary of Technology, Clinton Administration, & CEO of Global Smarts, Inc.
- Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering
- Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Carole Dulong, Google - Co-Chair
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education - Co-Chair
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Pamela Arya, Executive Director, Applied Minds, Inc.
- Nina Bhatti, Principle Scientist, HP Labs
- Katy Dickinson, Director, Business Process Architecture, Sun Microsystems
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Penny Eckert, Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University
- Moira Gunn, MogoTech Media, Tech Nation
- Robin Jeffries, Google
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur & Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Carol Muller, President and CEO, MentorNet
- Rebecca Norlander, Technical Assistant to the Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Sarah Revi Sterling,Student, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Janice Stockard, Visiting Professor, Mills College