Women Who Tech

2008 Panelist Bios | Advisory Committee Bios

	Joan Blades: Panel: Women And Social Capital Joan is the co-founder and board member of MoveOn.org, which has an online membership of over 3 million. Mother’s Day 2006 she co-founded MomsRising.org with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner to tap the power of online grassroots organizing for mothers and families in the U.S.A. She is also the co-author of The Motherhood Manifesto which won the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize in 2007 and a member of the Reuniting America advisory board. Last century she co-founded Berkeley Systems best known for the flying toaster screen saver "After Dark", taught mediation at Golden Gate Law School, practiced mediation and wrote Mediate Your Divorce, published by Prentice Hall. She is a past member of the California and Alaska bar associations. Ms. Blades is an artist, with collages published on both greeting cards and software packaging. She enjoys creating fused glass jewelry, is a nature lover, Sunday soccer player and mother.
	Anne Champlin Panel: Everything You Wanted To Know About Tech But Were Afraid To Ask (a man) With over 10 years of interactive and technology experience, Anne has been instrumental in managing multiple strategic accounts and implementing award winning online programs. Anne has worked with some of the largest global brands and companies, some of the most important non-profits and highest profile political organizations. In her current role at OLSON, Anne works with her clients to create and ignite brand communities by finding ways for people to connect to others around an idea. The idea draws people in, stirs their imaginations and creates a sense of belonging. Technology and interactive tools play an important role in allowing clients the opportunity to have a dialogue with some of the most important brand community members. Before joining OLSON, Anne was the Vice President of Client Services at Grassroots Enterprise where she worked with groups ranging from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids to Progressive Majority.
	Angie Chang Panel: Tooting Your Own Horn Angie is a product manager by day, web/UI designer by habit, and entrepreneur at heart. In 2006, she co-founded Women 2.0, a networking group for like-minded young entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley. She co-founded and launched a web 2.0 beauty product review website the same year. Today, Angie is busy making Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners happen - and requiring that the guys come as the “+1″ for once. Angie holds a B.A. in English and Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley.
	Nita Chaudhary Panel: Build An Online Campaign And Save The World Coming Soon!
	Sarah Dijulio Panel: Build An Online Campaign And Save The World Sarah is the Executive Vice President of M+R and launched and directs M+R's eCampaigns division. Sarah has provided strategic consulting and training on online advocacy and fundraising to major nonprofits, served as a spokeswoman about Internet campaigns for major media outlets, and led innovative and successful nonprofit online marketing campaigns. Prior to joining M+R, Sarah created the online campaign division for TechRocks, where she developed an innovative Internet strategy for the Heritage Forests Campaign which recruited 300,000 activists online. Currently, Sarah provides strategic consulting to a number of M+R clients including The Wilderness Society, Oxfam America, Human Rights Campaign, and American Rights at Work.
	Megan Fitzgerald: Panel: Tooting Your Own Horn Megan Fitzgerald is an expat career, business and personal branding strategist and the founder of Career By Choice. She helps expatriates use their personal brand to customize a career or business that fits who they are and their international lifestyle. Because she believes the key to a person's success lies in communicating their unique value in a differentiating way, personal branding is at the core of her approach. Megan also believes in the in the power of technology to transform lives. Currently she is working with technology professionals in 11 countries, as well as with expat entrepreneurs who depend on technology to make their mobile lifestyle possible. With 15 years experience in career and business development, she has worked with professionals and entrepreneurs from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Latin America and the Middle East. She has certifications in personal branding, career coaching, executive coaching and online identity management, as well as a Masters Degree in Multimedia Communications. She recently presented at the Personal Branding Global Telesummit and has been featured in several expatriate publications including Italy Magazine.
	Rosie de Fremery Panel: Everything You Wanted To Know About Tech But Were Afraid To Ask (a man) Rosie has served as Director of Management Information Systems (MIS) at American Jewish World Service since 2003. She is responsible for all aspects of information systems management at AJWS including setting the direction of overall technology strategy for the organization. Before joining AJWS she was Information Systems Manager at Community Food Resource Center, a nonprofit organization serving low-income communities in New York. Rosie holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, where she studied English literature and computer science. She is also an alumna of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, on which she taught English to high school students for three years in rural Japan.
	Catherine Geanuracos Panel: Mobile Activism Catherine manages all interactive strategy and program development for Live Earth, and spearheaded global online and SMS programs for the 7.07.07 Live Earth concerts. In addition to Live Earth, she managed a four-country SMS campaign and the “Friends of Live Earth” program which supported 12,000 local events inspired by Live Earth in 132 countries. Currently developing new programs and online community growth strategies, she continues to manage all interactive partner relationships, including those with MSN, MySpace, Evite and all NGO partners. Geanuracos develops participatory technology to support social advocacy, community-level behavior change and distributed events. She mobilizes real-world action, fundraising and engagement in social issues using interactive platforms. Geanuracos has served as a consultant for MoveOn.org Political Action during the last two U.S. election cycles, helping to shape innovative programs that have fundamentally expanded opportunities for political engagement.
	Julie Barko Germany Panel: Mobile Activism Julie Germany serves as the director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet at The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. She is also the principal author and editor of several publications, including Constituent Relationship Management: The New Little Black Book of Politics, and Person-to-Person-to-Person: Harnessing the Political Power of Online Social Networks and User-Generated Content, as well as The Politics-to-Go-Handbook: A Guide to Using Mobile Technology in Politics and The Political Consultants’ Online Fundraising Primer. She co-authored Putting Online Influentials to Work for Your Campaign. She has appeared in national and international newspapers, magazines, and media, including MSNBC, C-SPAN, Fox, CBS, and NBC. Julie previously served as the deputy director of IPDI. She worked as a writer, editor and program manager for international initiatives in Korea, Ukraine, Haiti and the United States. Julie is a founding board member of Young Champions, a non-profit that addresses youth health issues, and a co-founder of Mobile Monday DC, the local chapter of an international community of mobile technology experts and enthusiasts.
	Susan Getgood Panel: Improve This Blog Pitch Susan Getgood was among the pioneers in introducing children and parents to the Internet as an expert in online safety and General Manager of Cyber Patrol, one of the world’s first Internet filters. Her 20+ years in the computer software industry included leading a global marketing team as Senior Vice President of Marketing for SurfControl. A results-oriented strategic marketer, Susan knows how to build brands using technology, policy and good old fashioned high-quality products. In 2004, she founded GetGood Strategic Marketing Inc. to help bring blogs into the mix as an indispensable marketing tool. Today, her firm helps public and private companies and organizations build brands and drive revenue with integrated marketing and social media strategies.
	Clarissa Goodlett Panel: Get Your Local Campaigns On! Clarissa serves the Membership and Outreach Director for ColorOfChange.org. Clarissa has worked on most of ColorofChange.org efforts, contributing to campaign strategy and execution on several campaigns. This includes our recent efforts in Jena Louisiana, the campaign to prevent a partnership between the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and Fox News, and our efforts to secure justice and a right of return for Gulf Coast residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Prior to ColorOfChange, Clarissa served as a field organizer with Senator Edwards '04 presidential campaign and as a regional field director for the US Senate campaign of Erskine Bowles from North Carolina. Clarissa holds a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She lives in Raleigh, NC.
	Liz Gumbinner Panel: Improve This Blog Pitch Liz is the co-founder and editor of CoolMomPicks.com along with partner Kristen Chase. In just 18 short months, the cheeky site has become one of the hottest shopping blogs on the web, keeping tens of thousands of parents a week apprised on what's cool in the world of baby gifts and gear. Cool Mom Picks has gained praise from Time, Advertising Age, and was most recently lauded in Real Simple's Best Blogs feature. Some better know Liz as the voice behind parenting blog Mom-101 where she occasionally rants about lame blogger outreach efforts. She's also a published author and columnist, and is a contributor to the upcoming mommyblogger anthology, "Sleep is for the Weak" - although she is still a little squidgy about the term "mommyblogger".
.	Leslie Hawthorn Panel: Open Source For Women Leslie has held various roles at Google prior to joining the Open Source Programs Office in March 2006. She manages the Google Summer of Code, program and was responsible for conceiving and managing the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. She also facilitates open source community meetings and hackathons at Google's Mountain View, California, USA headquarters. Proud to be known as Google's geek herder, Leslie holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of California at Berkeley
	Kaliya Hamlin Panel: Open Source For Women Coming Soon!
	Arianna Huffingon Panel: Women And Social Capital Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of eleven books. She is also co-host of “Left, Right & Center,” public radio’s popular political roundtable program. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Next

WOMEN ARE UNDERREPRESENTED

Some of the most gifted folks in technology are women yet they are rarely quoted as experts by the mainstream media and blogs. Furthermore women are significantly underrepresented on panels at major technology conferences.
TO BREAK DOWN BARRIERS

The teleSummit aims to break down the barriers and showcase the brilliant talents of women who tech out.
TO MOBILIZE A NETWORK OF WOMEN

One of our long term goals is to create a database of women technology experts to be used as a resource for the media and tech conference organizers. This database will not only provide a strong network of women in the technology sector but support the creative talents and energies of women who thrive in this arena.

There are a limited number of ad sponsorships
available to support Women Who Tech: A
TeleSummit for Women in Technology. If your
business is looking to reach the decision makers
who work in technology for political and non-profit
organizations please get in touch.

WOMEN ARE UNDERREPRESENTED

TO BREAK DOWN BARRIERS

TO MOBILIZE A NETWORK OF WOMEN