A Note to New Graduates: Your Career Was Never Meant to Be a Straight Line
The Fake Map We Hand New Graduates The best career advice for new graduates is rarely the advice we hear at graduation. Normally, in the days between receiving your diploma…
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AI Is Looking Backward. You Are Looking Forward.
The Sentence I Keep Hearing There’s a sentence I keep hearing lately, at dinners, on panels, and in private messages from women I admire who are quietly worried about their…
Women in AI: 5 Reasons We Cannot Sit This One Out
I have been in tech for over twenty years, and I keep noticing the same pattern playing out at the start of every cycle. The AI era is still early. Here are five reasons we cannot afford to sit this one out.
The Climb You Never See
She walks a path that’s hard and steep,While others climb with strides so deep.She carries bias, pay that’s low,And questions why it’s still so slow. She works with care, she…
Unhide Your Strength (Revela Tu Fuerza)
Of course, I hid—Just like so many of us do,When the world tells us to be small,To dim the fuego that burns in you. The message is loud,The message is…
Letting Go: Wisdom from a Falling Leaf
Background: Sitting in my cabin out in the country this weekend, I’ve been watching the leaves change colors and fall off the trees. It’s amazing how they just let go…
Redefining ‘Soft Skills’: Why They’re Hard-Core Necessities in our AI-Driven Future
I’ve been thinking a lot about the term ‘soft skills’ lately. It’s a phrase that tends to get tossed around quite a bit, but what does it truly mean? And…
My Therapy Journey
I’ve worked in Information Technology for over 20 years now, and after my second promotion into management, I started to deal with imposter syndrome. I kept thinking that I wasn’t…
Top Three Reasons We Need More Women In Tech
Gender equality remains a major issue in the corporate world, and women remain significantly underrepresented in the corporate pipeline. Despite an abundance of research confirming that companies are more profitable when they…
From Toastmaster to TEDx | How I Landed on the TEDx Chelsea Park Stage
The Beginning – My Toastmaster Experience As I stood up at my first NYC Toastmasters club meeting I was so nervous, I could barely say my name. I received my…