You can still sign-up to support seniors writing of college application essays on Friday, November 17, 2023, 8:15am – 12:45pm at CCPA school in East Oakland, California.
Our goal is to support students at Coliseum College Prep Academy in Oakland, California serving grades 6-12 with a computer science pathway, by providing access to volunteers and role models from the professional community for students. We partnered with Oakland Education Fund, a nonprofit coordinating volunteer activities with public schools.
Our 5th annual Elevate Conference on March 8, 2022 in celebration of Int’l Women’s Day hosted thousands around the world. Elevate hosted 45 speakers across 23 sessions, supported by 14 sponsors (they are actively hiring, check out their jobs!)
From leading with your strengths, to managing your manager – and your career for a life of resilience. The March 8 event featured luminary engineering and product leaders who came together to elevate the conversation around women – an important opportunity to empower the women globally in a pandemic with diverse set of talks from technical women leaders on the hard and soft skills needed to succeed.
Walgreens has tapped Roz Brewer as its new CEO, which will make her the only Black woman currently leading a Fortune 500 company. Brewer will take over as Walgreens CEO on March 15, 2021 after a little more than three years as Starbucks’ chief operating officer.
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna developed the Crispr tool, which can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with high precision. “I’m over the moon, I’m in shock,” Dr. Doudna, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said at a news conference on Wednesday.
“I’m thrilled and incredibly honored to receive a Nobel Prize in physics,” said Andrea Ghez, director of the UCLA Galactic Center Group. “We have cutting-edge tools and a world-class research team, and that combination makes discovery tremendous fun.” She is the fourth woman to receive the physics prize, following Marie Curie in 1903, Maria Goeppert Mayer in 1963 and Donna Strickland in 2018.
All-women and mixed-gender US fund teams outperformed all-male portfolio management teams so far this year, according to a Goldman Sachs analysis that raises fresh questions about the investment industry’s progress in addressing its gender diversity problems. Women-led funds remain a rarity across the investment industry.
