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CompilHER: Empowering the Next Generation of Women Technologists

CompilHER: Empowering the Next Generation of Women Technologists

By CompilHER Podcast

Welcome to CompilHER, a podcast by and for women in tech. Season 1 told the stories of early career women technologists, and in Season 2 we'll be focusing on issues in tech ranging from DEI and interdisciplinary tech to ethics and social responsibility.

We would love to hear feedback from our listeners! Know someone who would be a great guest on CompilHER? Feel free to reach us via email at hellocompilher@gmail.com

Follow us on Instagram for more updates: www.instagram.com/compilher
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Introducing CompilHER

CompilHER: Empowering the Next Generation of Women TechnologistsApr 03, 2019

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Julia Hirschberg: Creating an Academic Culture that Cares

Julia Hirschberg: Creating an Academic Culture that Cares

Julia Hirschberg is Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science and was most recently the Chair of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University from 2012-2018, serving as one of two female chairs of the department. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.  She worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Laboratories -- Research from 1985-2003 as a Member of Technical Staff and a Department Head, creating the Human-Computer Interface Research Department.  Professor Hirschberg has been active in working for diversity at AT&T and at Columbia. She has been active in supporting the Emerging Scholars program and other diversity initiatives at Columbia and has actively advocated for the further representation of minorities and women in the faculty and encouraged diversity in the undergraduate Computer Science community as well. We are so excited to share this episode with you about the importance of encouraging diversity in academic communities, and the value of creating deliberate programming to ensure the success of minority students in the field of Computer Science.

Mar 05, 202125:13
Chelsea Barabas: Shaping our Future Workforce

Chelsea Barabas: Shaping our Future Workforce

In this episode of CompilHER, we interview Chelsea Barabas, a PhD student at the doctoral program of Media, Arts, and Sciences at MIT. Barabas shares with us the Heuristics, Algorithms, and the Gatekeepers of opportunity in technology and the concept of 21st-century redlining in the technology industry. 

Dec 11, 202030:32
Lea Coligado: Diversity & Inclusion is a Must-Have

Lea Coligado: Diversity & Inclusion is a Must-Have

In this episode of CompilHER, we interview Lea Coligado, the founder of Women of Silicon Valley, who speaks with us in-depth about why diversity and inclusion is a must-have in today's tech industry and how D&I initiatives are imperative to her retention and the many colleagues around her. 

Dec 11, 202026:12
Brandie Nonnecke: Tech Policy, Deepfakes, & Election Integrity

Brandie Nonnecke: Tech Policy, Deepfakes, & Election Integrity

In our first episode of Season 2, Brandie Nonnecke joins us to discuss her research on tech policy, including deep fakes and AI for good. We also get her thoughts on election integrity as we approach the 2020 U.S. presidential election. 

Brandie Nonnecke, PhD is Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at UC Berkeley. Brandie has expertise in information and communication technology (ICT) policy and internet governance. She studies human rights at the intersection of law, policy, and emerging technologies with her current work focusing on fairness, accountability, and appropriate governance mechanisms for AI. She is a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She served as a fellow at the Aspen Institute’s Tech Policy Hub and at the World Economic Forum on the Council on the Future of the Digital Economy and Society. She was selected as a 2018 RightsCon Young Leader in Human Rights in Tech and received the 2019 Emerging Scholar Award at the 15th Intl. Common Ground Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society. Her research has been featured in Wired, NPR, BBC News, MIT Technology Review, Buzzfeed News, among others. Her research publications, op-eds, and presentations are available at nonnecke.com.

We are currently recording Season 2 and would love to hear feedback from our listeners! Feel free to reach us via email at hello@compilher.com

Follow us on Instagram for more updates: www.instagram.com/compilher

Know someone who would be a great guest on CompilHER? Fill out our nominations form here: forms.gle/FGryRv34uXnYRZcJA

Oct 20, 202027:58
Season 2 Intro with Surbhi & Maddie
Oct 20, 202002:30
Season 1 Recap with Surbhi & Maddie
Apr 30, 201923:01
Special Edition Episode: Dr. Rebecca Wright

Special Edition Episode: Dr. Rebecca Wright

Dr. Rebecca Wright is a visiting professor of Computer Science and Director of the Vagelos Computational Science Center at Barnard.  She is currently on leave from Rutgers University, where she served as director of the DIMACS center and as the founding faculty advisor for the Douglass-SAS-DIMACS Computer Science Living-Learning Community for first-year Rutgers women in Computer Science.

Wright's research is primarily in the area of information security, including privacy, applied cryptography, foundations of computer security, and fault-tolerant distributed computing. Wright serves as an editor of the International Journal of Information and Computer Security and of the Transactions on Data Privacy, and is a member of the board of the Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University, a B.A. from Columbia University, and an honorary M.E. from Stevens Institute of Technology. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM.

Apr 30, 201904:50
Karina: Realizing Your Worth
Apr 30, 201914:18
Vivian: Keep Asking & Keep Wanting
Apr 16, 201918:55
Serina: Actualizing What You Care About
Apr 12, 201932:39
Zoe: There Isn't Just One Path
Apr 08, 201918:02
Yulissa: CS is for Everyone
Apr 08, 201930:29
Lucille: Creating Community
Apr 03, 201921:49
Introducing CompilHER
Apr 03, 201901:39