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'Tale Alimi
Lagos, Nigeria
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Leveraging technology as a woman without loosing my style
Aanand Prasad
London, England
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Fantastic Bots and Where To Find Them
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Adina Shanholtz
New York City, NY
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I'm sorry I can't stop saying sorry
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Aditya Mukerjee
Portland, OR
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Decolonizing Unicode: Can We Type Every Word That Has Ever Been Written?
Aditya Mukerjee
New York City, NY
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Crossing the Language Divide: Making Programming Accessible to English and Non-English Speakers Alike
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Adri Mills
Boston, MA
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A Group For All People
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Ajibola Amzat
Lagos, Nigeria
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Wanted: Data Smart Journalists
Alaine Marsden
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Real Inclusion is more than just words and numbers.
Alayna Cole
Melbourne, Australia
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Playersexuality and Plurisexuality in Videogames
Alberto Roca
Austin, TX
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Tech Diversity is not just Black or White: Where's the Love for Latinos?
Alexander Rodriguez
Minneapolis, MN
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Graveti: Building a stronger tech startup ecosystem by focusing on minorities.
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Alexandra Bowen
New York City, NY
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Dealing with intellectual trolling
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Alexandra Bowers Schoen
Atlanta, GA
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What They Didn’t Tell You About Being a Techie and New Mom (Parent)
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Alexandra Dobkin
Chicago, IL
Employee Resource Groups and You: Improving Females’ Experience in the Workplace
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Alisha Karabinus
Detroit, MI
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Invisibility Blues: On Advocacy and Activism in the Age of Kickstarter
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Allison Parrish
New York City, NY
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Incredible Witness: Findings from the Public Laboratory
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Aly Ferguson
New York City, NY
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Heals Over Time: The Role of Gaming In Rehabilitation
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Alyss Noland
Austin, TX
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Struggles of an Accidental Junior Developer
Alyssa Ross
Dublin, Ireland
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Who are Internet Filters for?
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Ambika Samarthya-Howard
Portland, OR
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Inclusivity 360: Including Diverse Voices Through the Project Lifecycle
Amy Codes
Austin, TX
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"Looking for Attention": A talk on Self Advocacy and Building Platforms
Amy Wibowo
SF/Oakland, CA
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Coding Like a Girl
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Andrea Grimes
Austin, TX
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Our Internet, Ourselves
Anita Pyke
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Diversity in teams: making it work
Anjana Vakil
Berlin, Germany
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The Hardest Problems in Computer Science
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Anna Wilson
Dublin, Ireland
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How LGBT peoples' lives have been changed by the Internet
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Anna Zocher
Seattle, WA
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Resisting the Tidal Wave: Making Sure Chronic Disease or Disability Doesn't Upend Your Career
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Anna-Livia Cardin-Gomart
Paris, France
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How we infuse our biases in the products we make and what we can do to change it
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Anna-Livia Gomart Cardin
London, England
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Learning How To Cook : A Call For DIY Recommendation Algorithms
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Anne Seebach
Berlin, Germany
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#BIKEYGEES - about empowering migrant women by bike trainings
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Anonymous
Portland, OR
Not All Alike: East Asian and Transmasculine in Tech
Anonymous
San Francisco, CA
Fighting For Justice: Voices from Tech's Invisible Workforce
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Archie Prakash
Los Angeles, CA
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Brogrammer Culture in Tech
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Ariane
Dublin, Ireland
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A name that disempowers
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Ariane
London, England
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Non-verbal Accessibility
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Ariane Rutz
Berlin, Germany
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Ariel Lopez
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MoreThanCode: Breaking into Tech as a Non Engineer
Arlene Ducao
New York City, NY
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Is Diversity a Luxury Item in Technology?
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Ash López
Los Angeles, CA
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Learning from Gay Straight Alliances to Diversify Tech
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Ashe Dryden
Melbourne, Australia, Dublin, Ireland, San Francisco, CA, Minneapolis, MN, Los Angeles, CA, Chicago, IL, Toronto, ON, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, Austin, TX, Atlanta, GA, SF/Oakland, CA, New York City, NY, Boston, MA
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Ashlea McKay
Melbourne, Australia
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The difference of a diagnosis: the before and after impact of marginalisation on my UX career
Audrey Eschright
Portland, OR
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Unraveling the Masculinization of Technology
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Avory Faucette
Washington D.C.
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5 Simple Steps for Trans-Inclusive Data
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Banke Alawaye
Lagos, Nigeria
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It's not just about numbers: Applying an Inclusivity Lens to Tech
Barne Kleinen
Berlin, Germany
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Your identity will be automatically overwritten!
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Bayo Puddicombe
Lagos, Nigeria
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Why do Black Games Matter?
Ben Hopkins
Los Angeles, CA
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Disability isn't always what you expect
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Bree Stanwyck
Atlanta, GA
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Fake Geek Girl: Trans Microaggressions in Tech
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Brendan Gramer
Seattle, WA
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How Self-Advocacy can help create a richer, more inclusive life experience
Brianne' Ellis
Seattle, WA
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African American Career Burn-Out: Self-Care and Preventing Career Burn-out
Bryan Hughes
San Francisco, CA
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Why Open Source Fails to Protect Under-Represented Minorities
Byron Woodfork
Portland, OR
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The Truth About Mentoring Minorities
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Caelyn Sandel
Boston, MA
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Rise of the Diary Game
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Candace Williams
New York City, NY
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It's not lit: strategies for exposing and eliminating cultural appropriation in marketing
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Carly Ho
Chicago, IL
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What's in a name (validation)?
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Caroline Karanja
San Francisco, CA
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Codeswitching: What it is, why it happens, how it affects the workplace
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Carter Morgan
Seattle, WA
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Being black is not only dangerous, it's distracting
Carvell Wallace
SF/Oakland, CA
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Why There Is No Such Thing As Tech
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Cassie Traun
Minneapolis, MN
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Surviving and Thriving in the Panopticon: Maintaining Privacy in the Workplace as a Chronically Ill Activist
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Catherine Lundoff
Minneapolis, MN
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Aging and Accessibility in Tech
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Catherine [Kiran/Rin] Oliver
Austin, TX
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Erasure from Within: Building a Better MOGII Gaming Community
Catt Small
New York City, NY
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Creating a Community of Game Developer Women
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Chad Gowler
London, England
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Trapped By The Trappings
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Charles Babb
Los Angeles, CA
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Being Young, Gifted, Black, and Other Adjectives in the Gaming Industry
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Charlotte James
Washington D.C.
Creating diverse spaces of opportunity in the tech sector
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Charlotte Spencer
London, England
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Open Open Source
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Chelsea Barabas
Boston, MA
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Redefining "The Best:" Reflections on the Limits and Biases of Hiring Practices in Tech
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Chelsea Maxwell
Austin, TX
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Crop Tops in Boardrooms: Viewing Youth, Expression, and Achievement through Gender
Chi Pham
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To all women in Tech: Think Beyond Gender
Chiu-Ki Chan
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Should we change ourselves, or change the system?
Chris Algoo
New York City, NY
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Fostering Diversity with Games and Events
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Chris Dobbins
Portland, OR
Year 0: The Lies They Tell You
Christina González
New York City, NY
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Opening the Internet: Looking Beyond English Dominance
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Christina Truong
Toronto, ON
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Don't just talk about it, be about it
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Christine Bryant-Ryback
New York City, NY
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Standing Desks and Free Pizza: Body Image Negotiations in Tech Spaces
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Christopher Williams
Minneapolis, MN
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Culture Is Not A Game, But Created Like One!
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Clarinda Mac Low
New York City, NY
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Incredible Witness: Findings from the Public Laboratory
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Claudia Hernandez
Paris, France
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The transatlantic journey to success
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Coraline Ada Ehmke
Chicago, IL
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He Doesn't Work Here Anymore
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Courtney Stanton
Portland, OR
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Outliving GamerGate: How We Cope, Survive, and Thrive Beyond (Online) Abuse
Creatrix Tiara
Melbourne, Australia
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Visas, Immigration, and Trying to Work in Tech/Games
Dani Higgins
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Fundamentals of Self-Care
Daniel Irvine
Dublin, Ireland
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Lessons from a life of exile
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Danielle James
New York City, NY
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Danielle Leong
Dublin, Ireland
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Becoming Feerless: Lessons Learned from Building Tools for Mental Health
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Danya Azzopardi
Melbourne, Australia
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Word power: inclusion through language
David Peter
New York City, NY
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Deafness in the Tech World
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Davida Small
SF/Oakland, CA
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How Unconscious Racism Keeps Culturally Marginalized Black People out of Tech Organizations
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Dawn Parzych
Portland, OR
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Surviving on the fringe of the tech industry
Desiree Zamora Garcia
Washington D.C.
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Is it all in your head?
Devangana Khokhar
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Future of work in the age of Artificial Intelligence
Dimas Guardado
SF/Oakland, CA
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The System Boundary - What the software industry misses when favoring computer systems over social systems
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Donte Parks
Seattle, WA
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Breaking Down Diversity in Tech One Company At a Time
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Dr Tyrone Grandison
Seattle, WA
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The Power of Open
Drian Juarez
Los Angeles, CA
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Deconstructing Binary Spaces
Egga Hartung
London, England
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There are no safe spaces
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Eilís Ní Fhlannagáin
Dublin, Ireland
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The Robotic CEO: Class at the Intersection of Technology and a Modest Proposal.
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Elaine Nelson
Seattle, WA
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Establishing Your Core Values
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Elea Chang
Portland, OR
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The glorification of generalization in tech
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Eli Silva
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Designing for Diversity: How Organizations Align for Inclusion
Elizabeth Ferrao
Toronto, ON
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How NOT to Lose Friends and Alienate People: Generating Physical and Language Awareness in the Workplace
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Elizabeth Mitchell
Detroit, MI
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Building Healthy, Anti-Oppressive Workplaces
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Elizabeth Posadas
San Francisco, CA
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Advocating for the Imposter
Elizabeth Yalkut
New York City, NY
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STEM in single-gender education, stereotype threat, and plugging the pipeline
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Elle Meredith
Melbourne, Australia
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Feedback matters
Elohor Thomas
Lagos, Nigeria
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Digital Literacy in Nigeria (Tech)
Elze Hamilton
Austin, TX
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Toward Structure and Disambiguation: Supporting Diversity in Development Teams
Emily Bookstein
Portland, OR
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So You Want Diversity In Tech?
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Emily Care Boss
Boston, MA
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Sex & Love (vs Violence) in Games
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Emily Gorcenski
New York City, NY
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The Cult(ure) of Strength
Emily Gorcenski
Washington D.C.
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Social and Design Factors in Video Games for Therapy and Rehabilitation
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Emily Metcalfe
New York City, NY
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Low-Spoons Leadership
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Emma Pierson
San Francisco, CA
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The unexamined bytes are not worth coding
Erica Joy
San Francisco, CA
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What Just Happened?
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Erika Carlson
Detroit, MI
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Eva Gantz
Detroit, MI
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Unlocking economic participation for millions of women
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Farai Madzima
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That time I got fired because of my culture.
February Keeney
Dublin, Ireland
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Safety in Online Spaces
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Ferdous Nasri
Berlin, Germany
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Frank Akogun
Lagos, Nigeria
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JACK OF ALL TRADES PROGRAMMERS:- THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Franziska Trabold
London, England
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Not one of the guys - finding myself in an industry dominated by cis men
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Gabriela Aveiro-Ojeda
Toronto, ON
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Preserving culture through the power of games
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Gabrielle Barboteau
Paris, France
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Le point de vue d'une femme trans sur le sexisme de la presse vidéoludique française
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Gbenga Ajilore
Chicago, IL
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How Can Open Data Help Facilitate Police Reform
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Gem Barrett
Washington D.C.
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Using bots to improve humanity
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Gina Helfrich
Austin, TX
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Tackling the Homogeneity of Open Source Communities
Haile Canton
Portland, OR
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When to Stop Teaching Others and Start Caring for Ourselves
Haleigh Sheehan
Toronto, ON
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Y/N?: binary for humans
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Harlan Kellaway
SF/Oakland, CA
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Trans_: An Anthology of Trans People & the Internet
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Harold Moore
Washington D.C.
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Supply Side Diversity, or why FUBU had the right idea OR We're not apping our way out of this one
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Heather Davidson
Paris, France
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Accessibility vs. Ethics in the Sharing Economy
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Heather Herrington
Seattle, WA
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Starting Over: A Beginner Yet Again
Heidi Waterhouse
Chicago, IL
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The Digital Sandwich Generation: Women's roles in identity management for others
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Hinna Yusuf
Toronto, ON
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Barriers to Access: Web illiteracy and resulting fears amongst gatekeepers
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Ijeoma Oluo
Seattle, WA
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How The Tech Industry Made Me A Social Justice Writer
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Imran Khan
Atlanta, GA
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Why Diversity in Video Games Matters
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Indu Alagarsamy
Los Angeles, CA
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Gender Bias - Identifying the unconscious evil in ourselves to shape a better humanity.
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Ingrid Epure
Dublin, Ireland
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Debugging Fear
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Ivana McConnell
Toronto, ON
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Inclusion Before Diversity: Putting Self-Care First
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Ivy Krislov
Seattle, WA
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Narrative as a Guide for User Experience
Izzy Iqbal
SF/Oakland, CA
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Queer Mechanics in Competitive Videogames
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Jacqueline Russell
Dublin, Ireland
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We want to believe, but we don't
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Jacquelle Amankonah
San Francisco, CA
Crash Through that Glass Ceiling: Strategies for Achieving Success Despite Societal Limitations
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Jameson Hampton
New York City, NY
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Dismantling the binary, one microaggression at a time
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Jamie Chung
San Francisco, CA
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CSS VS. My Gender: A Study In Transitions
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Jana Stadeler
Paris, France
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Not just a Boy's Club - Entering the Game Industry as a Girl
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Janice Omadeke
Austin, TX
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From "Token" to "Asset": How to use Being Different to your Advantage
Jennifer Konikowski
Boston, MA
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A Group For All People
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Jennifer Poole
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Did you forget to take your meds?
Jenny Wong
Dublin, Ireland
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Building an Accessible Community
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Jessica Lucci
Austin, TX
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But You Don't Look Sick: Navigating the Workplace With an Invisible Disability
Jigyasa Grover
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FOSS it up, with women !
Jo Liss
London, England
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What will a diverse tech industry look like?
John I. McSwain, III
Atlanta, GA
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What They Didn’t Tell You About Being a Techie and New Mom (Parent)
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Johnnie Jae
Austin, TX
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Indigenous Flames: Reclaiming Space, Reclaiming Power through Digital Activism
Jonny Vu
Chicago, IL
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Why the Workforce Needs Skills-Based Hiring
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Josh Lim
San Francisco, CA
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Always Go Down Fighting: The Case for Failure as a Tech Community's Strength
Josh Lim
San Francisco, CA
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Outside Looking In: Working to Reshape the Cultural Memory of Tech
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Juan Pablo Buritica
New York City, NY
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Building world class teams from developing nations
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Julie Pagano
Portland, OR
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Mid-career Survival for People Who Don’t Want to Be an Attrition Statistic When They Grow Up
Julie Wotzko
Melbourne, Australia
Using the Resiliency learned from Games to Learn Anything
Justin Woo
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Why is your English so Good?
Juwan Platt
Atlanta, GA
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Context for People of Color
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Kahlief Adams
Portland, OR
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Podcasting While Black Saved My Sanity, It Can Save Yours Too
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Kamilah Jenkins
Portland, OR
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Visualizing Disparity
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Kana Hammon
San Francisco, CA
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Why We Need to Organize Tech Workers for Diversity, Inclusion and Justice in our Communities
Kara Sowles
Portland, OR
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The Challenges of Company Diversity Programs: Life Within the Overton Window
Kara Stone
Toronto, ON
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Feelings and Videogames
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Kareem Francis
New York City, NY
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“You make everything about race” - an appeal for empathy in discussions of racism in America
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Kassandra Perch
Austin, TX
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We need to get beyond shock and denial when hearing about harassment
Katharina
Berlin, Germany
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Tech and disability from a neurodivergent's perspective
Katharine White
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The Pipeline Fallacy
Kathryn Storm
Portland, OR
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The Invisible Imposter
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Katie Sullivan
Austin, TX
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Distributing your way to a diverse workforce
Katriel Paige
New York City, NY
The Privilege of Making
Katy Peichert
Berlin, Germany
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Diversity and Inclusion Efforts in Hiring for Tech Talents
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Kaya Thomas
San Francisco, CA
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Creating Apps to Benefit Marginalized Communities
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Keidra Chaney
Chicago, IL
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Blogging, online culture, and institutional inequality
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Kelsey Gilmore-Innis
Portland, OR
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Your Job Is Political
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Kevin Simpson
SF/Oakland, CA
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Disability in Games
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Kevin Stewart
Seattle, WA
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Managing While Black
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Khadeja Merenkov
Boston, MA
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Perceptions and Realities of the Indie Demographic - and How it Affects our Games
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Kiera Manion-Fischer
San Francisco, CA
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Supporting your support: Give your support team flowers, chocolate, money and stock options
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Kitty Stryker
SF/Oakland, CA
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Branded: Sex Workers on Social Media
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Kojo Idrissa
Portland, OR
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Using Privilege Arbitrage to Increase Inclusion
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Kojo Idrissa
Austin, TX
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Discussing Practical Inclusivity
Kris Nova
Portland, OR
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Transcoding self worth into elegant software
Kristina Young
Berlin, Germany
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I've got an app for that! - How technology is being used in a large variety of fields
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Kronda Adair
Portland, OR, London, England, Portland, OR
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Kyeli Smith
Portland, OR
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Broken Body Beautiful: how taking selfies with my iPhone helped me find self-love
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La Vesha Parker
New York City, NY
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Open Up to Open Source
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Lateesha Thomas
San Francisco, CA
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Engineering Empathy: Fostering An Inclusive Culture at Our Code School
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Laura Gaetano
Berlin, Germany
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Making your voice heard: Open Source Needs You
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Laura Jane Watkins
Detroit, MI
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Breaking Stereotypes & Giving Diversity Many Faces: The #ILookLikeAnEngineer Movement
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Laurel Lawson
Atlanta, GA
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The Experience of Access
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Lauren Bierly
New York City, NY
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Incredible Witness: Findings from the Public Laboratory
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Lauren Golembiewski
New York City, NY
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How a Personal Chatbot Can Make Your Life Better
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lauren spath luhring
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More than just a Pregnant Lady
Lauren Voswinkel
Toronto, ON
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Let's Talk About Pay
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Leisha Riddel
Toronto, ON
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Creating Characters based on Ethnic Dysphoria
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Li Wren
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How To Fail Junior Developers
Li Zilles
Portland, OR
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Reflective, Not Objective: Intentionality in AI
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Lia Nemeth
London, England
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Music of changes: an autobiographical talk about transition and immigration in the tech community
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Libby Horacek
Washington D.C.
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Digital dress-up dolls and the death of KiSS
Lily Hoskin
Berlin, Germany
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Beware of the Trolls: Building Applications for Marginalised Communities
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liz
Portland, OR
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Positive Selfiesteem
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liz
San Francisco, CA
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Liz Abinante
Portland, OR
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Sniffing for Culture Smells & Interviewing Critically
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Liz Abinante
Portland, OR
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The Social Responsibility of Coding
Lizzie Siegle
New York City, NY
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Diversity and Inclusion in Tech through a Hamilton lens
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Lizzie Stark
Boston, MA
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Sex & Love (vs Violence) in Games
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Lolito Mafanga
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The digital divide: training to be a coder at the Waterfront while living in the surrounding townships
Lori Watts
Chicago, IL
The Inspirationally Disadvantaged and other Tropes in Gaming
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Lucie Daeye
Paris, France
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Teaching programming to someone: do’s and don’ts
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Lucie Daeye
Berlin, Germany
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Burning out as an activist
Ludwine Probst
Paris, France
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Tech Beyond Borders
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Lyn Muldrow
Washington D.C.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Silenced
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Lyndsey Jackson
Melbourne, Australia
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Who advocates for people? The need for technology in grassroots movements
Lynn Cyrin
Seattle, WA
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Hosting
Lynn Cyrin
Portland, OR
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Generations of Trans Women in Tech
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Lynn Cyrin
Portland, OR
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Building a Home on the Internet
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Madalyn Rose Parker
SF/Oakland, CA
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Overcoming Mental Health Hurdles at Work
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Maddy Myers
Boston, MA
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The Objectivity Myth: Why Games Need Gonzo Journalism
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Malina Tran
Portland, OR
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a11y: Designing an Accessible User Experience for All
Manuel Marcano
New York City, NY
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Skin Deep: How to avoid Native American Stereotypes
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Marco Rogers
SF/Oakland, CA
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Conforming to Succeed and What it Means for People of Color
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Marcus Finley
Portland, OR
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Eliminating Unconscious Biases in Technology Through UX Design
Maria Gonzalez
San Francisco, CA
Fighting For Justice: Voices from Tech's Invisible Workforce
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Maria Guerrero
San Francisco, CA
Fighting For Justice: Voices from Tech's Invisible Workforce
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Maria Noel Fernandez
San Francisco, CA
Fighting For Justice: Voices from Tech's Invisible Workforce
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Mariam Asad
Atlanta, GA
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The Labors of Inclusivity
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Marie Chatfield
Portland, OR
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Low Power Mode: Managing Your Emotional and Creative Energy
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Marie Fromm
Minneapolis, MN
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Hacking your Employers Health Insurance Plan to Make It Trans Inclusive
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Mariella Paulino
Washington D.C.
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Hosting
Mario Jara
Austin, TX
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Industry Pains: Signs and Symptoms Not to Ignore
Marni Cohen
Portland, OR
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Riot Grrrl in the Tech Wrrrld
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Marvin K. Turner
Atlanta, GA
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Low MISC: Why encouraging Minority Involvement in Scientific Computing is a Good Idea
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Mary Racter
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I'm Good At My Dream Job, So Why Do I feel So Wrong For It?
Mattie Brice
SF/Oakland, CA
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diva ex machina - a perspective on games
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Meg Ward
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No more Rockstars, please
merritt kopas
Toronto, ON
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It's Hard Out Here For a Dyke: Being a Lesbian in Games
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Mia Lipner
SF/Oakland, CA
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We Can't See You, So You Don't See Us: The Accessibility Conundrum and Why You're Unlikely to Have Blind Coworkers
Michael Westbrooks II
Atlanta, GA
A Non-Traditional Tech Degree
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Mikayla Hutchinson
San Francisco, CA
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Identity impostors: surviving self-erasure
Mikena Wood
Seattle, WA
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Community Is Contribution
Miki Demeter
Portland, OR
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Privacy & Anonymity may be ruining your Diversity and Inclusion
Mikki Kendall
Chicago, IL
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The Harassment Game: Cyberbullying for Adults
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Mikki Kendall
Chicago, IL
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Surveillance state, race, and disability
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Mitch Kellaway
Boston, MA
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Trans_: An Anthology of Trans People & the Internet
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Monica F. Cox
Atlanta, GA
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Professionally Prepared but Not Pioneer Prepared
video available
Monica Thomas
Seattle, WA
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Tech Money, Gentrification, and the Policing of Blackness in Capitol Hill
Moof Mayeda
Portland, OR
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Not All Alike: East Asian and Transmasculine in Tech
Morgane Santos
Portland, OR
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Future Perfect: A Text Adventure Game for our Failed Ideals
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Morgen Bromell
San Francisco, CA
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Creating New Security Standards for Marginalized Users
Morgen Bromell
San Francisco, CA
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Imagining Radical Queer Futures through Tech
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Mwai Karimi
Berlin, Germany
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How accessibility in mobile devices has changed lives
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N. Liberty White
Atlanta, GA
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What They Didn’t Tell You About Being a Techie and New Mom (Parent)
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Nat Buckley
London, England
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Choose your own business adventure
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Natali Wachtman Perilo
New York City, NY
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How To Be BOSS When You're Not THE Boss: Effective Leadership Strategies for Everyone!
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Natasha Dobson
Atlanta, GA
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Computer Literacy for Every Kid in the World
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Neem Serra
New York City, NY
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Battling Unconscious Bias
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Neha Batra
San Francisco, CA
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Remember the pain: lessons learned from teaching myself to code
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Nicholas Black
Atlanta, GA
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The 12 Year Old I.T. Guy
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nikhil trivedi
Detroit, MI
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Toxic masculinities, sexual violence, and tech
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Nishat Anjum
San Francisco, CA
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Unicorns Are Actually Terrifying: Diversity for Diversity's Sake
Ntombi Masango
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The digital divide: training to be a coder at the Waterfront while living in the surrounding townships
Olamilekan Wahab
Lagos, Nigeria
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Excelling as a student developer in Nigeria.
Omosola Odetunde
Toronto, ON
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Loving Your Job and Why It (Actually) Matters
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Onwaba Mrhwetanya
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The digital divide: training to be a coder at the Waterfront while living in the surrounding townships
Pamela Vickers
Atlanta, GA
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Job Listing Minesweeper
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Peter Mbanugo
Lagos, Nigeria
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Think Offline First
Philip Jones & Ryan Paul
Los Angeles, CA, Detroit, MI
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Screening of Gaming in Color
Porpentine
SF/Oakland, CA
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Trash Fem Games
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Qa'id Jacobs
Paris, France
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Honoring Your Struggle by Hacking Company Culture with UX
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Qa'id Jacobs
London, England
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Started from the Margins now we here: our unfortunate empathy advantage
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Rachel Gollay
Austin, TX
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Job Candidates: Handling Problematic Interviews and Unethical Questions
Rachel Honor Vincent
New York City, NY
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Social rules, finger waggling, and direct feedback dinosaurs: fostering healthy communication on small teams
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Rachel Shorey
Washington D.C.
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Tech and the queer family
video available
Renee Gittins
Seattle, WA
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Virtual Armor: Tools for Preventing Abuse in VR
Rinita Gulliani
Chicago, IL
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Hosting
Rob Jackson
Washington D.C.
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Education is the Key
video available
Roisi Proven
Berlin, Germany
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Compartmentalised empathy - how to support others without losing yourself
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Rox Jaden Palmer
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Sex Assigned at Character Creation: A look at Cremisius Aclassi from Dragon Age: Inquisition
Safia Abdalla
Chicago, IL
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Deconstructing the Code of Conduct
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Sai Timmermann
Seattle, WA
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Are You a Boy or a Girl? Non-binary Representation in Games
Samantha Blackmon
Detroit, MI
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Invisibility Blues: On Advocacy and Activism in the Age of Kickstarter
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Samantha Kalman
Seattle, WA
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Invisible Arcade: video games as rock concerts
video available
Sandya Sankarram
San Francisco, CA
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Unlearning Toxic Behaviors in a Code Review Culture
Sarah Masud
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The Beep Protocol
Sarah Masud
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500,000 Girls
Sarah Olson
Minneapolis, MN
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Maternity and Motherhood in Tech
video available
Sarah Schoemann
Atlanta, GA
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The Labors of Inclusivity
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Sarah Withee
Austin, TX
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Life as a Midwestern Developer
Sarah Withee
Portland, OR
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The Power of Secrets
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Saudia Ganie
New York City, NY
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The Cost of Belonging
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Saumya Pandey
Chicago, IL
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Why it's essential to demystify technology?
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Scar Hervé
Paris, France
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Inclusivity in the hacker background : where we are, where we've come from and where to go
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Scherezade Siobhan
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The Mira Project : Cyberspace, Catharsis & Community Building
Seán Hanson
New York City, NY
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On Quiet Developers
video available
Sebastian W
Minneapolis, MN
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Liar Liar Pants on Fire: Being a Kid in the Tech World
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Senongo Akpem
New York City, NY
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Games, Literacy, and Tech in Nigeria
video available
Sev Leonard
Portland, OR
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Female to Male, a different trans perspective
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Shareef Jackson
Chicago, IL
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The Timing of Diverse Character Placement
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Sharlene King
Chicago, IL
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Disabled by Design; Designed by Choice
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Sharon Steed
Chicago, IL
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Getting out of your own way: turning your fears into assets
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Shauna Gordon-McKeon
Boston, MA
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Talking the Talk
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Shawn Alexander Allen
New York City, NY
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Crowdfunding to Break the Ethnic/Gender Status Quo
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Shelly Carpenter
Austin, TX
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Unconscious Biases: Addressing Stealth Barriers to Gender Diversity in Tech
Shelly Coen
Paris, France
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Be Kind to Yourself
video available
Shireen Mitchell
Washington D.C.
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Is it Possible for a safer, saner, and diverse internet?
video available
Sihle Tshabalala
twitter
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Teaching disadvantaged youth and prisoners how to code
Sinazo Bangani
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The digital divide: training to be a coder at the Waterfront while living in the surrounding townships
Siobhán K Cronin
San Francisco, CA
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On cubes, people, and snacks
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Sneha Rajana
San Francisco, CA
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Getting over the fear of technical interviews: My experiences as a college woman in Tech
Stacey Mulcahy
New York City, NY
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Creating a Community of Game Developer Women
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Stephanie Lawrence
New York City, NY
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Design Ethics: Inclusivity in the Design Process
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Stephanie Morillo
Portland, OR
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The Road Ahead: Making 'Diversity In Tech' More Inclusive
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Stephanie Morillo
New York City, NY
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Through the Looking Glass: When Upward Mobility and Access to Tech are a Train Stop Away
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Stephanie Slattery
Chicago, IL
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Eating in Tech: How to Make Space for People with Eating Disorders
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Stephanie Snopek
San Francisco, CA
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Supporting your support: Give your support team flowers, chocolate, money and stock options
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Steven Taarland
Paris, France
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Creating a voice: Why starting the Scottish Rainbow LGBT+ group is important.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Portland, OR
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Stand-up comedy that doesn't hurt
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Susan Lin
San Francisco, CA
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Now more than ever
Susannah Emery
Melbourne, Australia
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Gaming against Domestic Violence
Susie Lee
Seattle, WA
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Modern Day Corporate Exile: When Organizations Close Rank
Tanya C DePass
Chicago, IL
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Why we need diverse games
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Tanya C DePass
Chicago, IL
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Hustle and Flow: Real talk on Making it
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Taylor Barnett
Austin, TX
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Breaking Down Barriers to "Hello World"
Theresa Stewart
Chicago, IL
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People You May Want to Forget
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Thursday Bram
Portland, OR
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Styling for Inclusion: How Shaping a Style Guide Shapes Our Discussions
Tiffani Ashley Bell
Detroit, MI
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Utility Data for Social Good at the Detroit Water Project
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Tilde Ann Thurium
San Francisco, CA
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My Gender Is Emoji Pizza Unicorn: How I Shipped Expanded Gender Options at Pinterest
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Vaida Plankyte
London, England
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Let’s get personal! (about games)
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Valerie Lockhart
Minneapolis, MN
Aging and Accessibility in Tech
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Victor Yocco
Minneapolis, MN
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It shouldn’t come with the job: Addressing the culture of alcohol use and abuse in design and tech
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Vikram Babu
San Francisco, CA
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Surveying Identity or Surveillance: The Design of Useful Personal Data
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Vinamrata Singal
San Francisco, CA
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Building Inclusive Products for Users Everywhere
Walé Ogundipé
Minneapolis, MN
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Decoupling from (Bad) Shibboleths in the Software Developer Community
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Whitney Levis
Seattle, WA
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Updated Spoon Theory for the Tech Industry
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Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Paris, France
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Why I No Longer Identify as a Games Journalist
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Xandir O'Cando
SF/Oakland, CA
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Disability in Games
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Yasmin J. Mattox
New York City, NY
Integrating Family & Career: Ensuring Women's Dreams Continue to Take Flight After Motherhood
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Yulan Lin
Austin, TX
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The curse of "common knowledge": communicating for clarity and inclusivity
Yvonne Lam
Seattle, WA
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So You Want to Contribute to Open Source: Advice for the Non-Normative
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Zimkhitha Matshangaza
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