Graduate student, UC Berkeley
My name is Shanna-Shaye Forbes and I am a third year graduate student at the University of California Berkeley. I received my Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering Concentration) from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2007, and my masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California Berkeley in May 2009.
I am interested in real-time scheduling, operating systems, concurrent and distributed systems, as well as embedded systems. In my spare time I enjoy jogging, reading, watching movies, as well as watching HGTV. I enjoy seeing the look on children’s faces when they understand something new, and decide they would like to share their new found knowledge with everyone they meet. I also find it very rewarding to participate in outreach activities that introduce young women and minorities to science and engineering. In particular, it brings back fond memories of my participation in math and science club in middle school, as well as my participation in a high school enrichment program in Houston TX. I had the wonderful chance to meet women who chose to peruse mathematics as a career through the math and science club and my participation in both programs introduced me to career paths I did not know existed.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, – President and CEO
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer & Vice President
- Deanna Kosaraju, Corporate Secretary
Corporate Counsel
- Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Deanna Kosaraju, Vice President Programs
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Jerri Barrett, VP of Marketing
- Kirk Ross, Director of Finance
- Caroline Simard, VP of Research and Executive Programs
- Kathy Gee, Director of Operations
- Kim McLeod, Leadership Development & Academic Initiatives Program Manager
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Logistics Manager
- BJ Wishinsky, Communities Program Manager
- Christine Chiu, Program Content Manager
- Christina Pratt, Program Manager
- Linda Bohn, Office Manager
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering, Board Chair
- Francine Berman, Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Vice Chair
- Robin Abrams, Investor
- Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President, Research, and Director, HP Labs, HP
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer & Vice President
- Mark Bregman, CTO, Symantec
- Josephine Cheng, IBM Fellow and Vice President, IBM Research – Almaden
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Payroll, Intuit
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
- Shanna-Shaye Forbes, graduate student, UC Berkeley
- Eugenia Gabrielova, student, Northwestern
- Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior Vice President, Development Strategy & Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University
- Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
- Ike Nassi, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, SAP
- Brian Pawlowski, CTO, and Senior Vice President, NetApp
- Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund
- Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Margaret Ashida, Emeritus (Term: 2003- 2009)
- Wayne Johnson, Emeritus (Term: 2002-2008)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Rebecca Norlander, Partner Engineering Manager, Microsoft Online Advertising Platform, Microsoft Corporation – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Pamela Arya, VP, Business Development, Harris Crucial Security Programs
- Nina Bhatti, Principal Scientist, HP Labs
- Anne Condon, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
- Katy Dickinson, Director, Business Process Architecture, Sun Microsystems
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education
- Mark Guzdial, Professor in the School of Interactive Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology - Robin Jeffries, Google
- Chandra Krintz, Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur & Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Sarah Loos, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
- Carol Muller, Department Manager for Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- Elisa Camahort Page, co-founder & COO, BlogHer
- Tracy Prentiss
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.