Maia Bittner is the Co-founder of Pinch was previously the Co-founder and CTO Rocksbox. She’s passionate about empowering women in tech. She’s an Angel investor in women-owned startups. She was included last year’s Forbes 30 under 30 and she runs a brunch called Series XX that connects female investors, engineers, and startups. In this episode, Maia is sharing how she's created[...]
Nadya Okamoto, who grew up in Portland, OR, is 20-years-old and a Harvard sophomore. She is the Founder and Executive Director of PERIOD, an organization she founded at the age of 16. She is also the Co-founder and spokesperson of Next Fellows. PERIOD is now the largest youth-run NGO in women’s health, and one of the fastest growing ones here in the United States. In 2017, Nadya ran[...]
Maline is the woman behind Nooma Consulting, which helps adoptive parents better understand their children, giving them a perspective on adoption that is not sold in the media, through agencies, or in orphanages. She helps parents explore the difficult truth that the completion of one family is the loss of another, giving them advice and resources for their journey. She’s also the a[...]
Ann Muno has been doing girls' empowerment work for over 20 years. She co-founded Powerful Voices and directs a statewide non-profit called The Justice for Girls Coalition of Washington State. Her articles that capture what works to empower girls have been published in academic and peer-reviewed journals including Social Work in Education, Crime & Delinquency and After Schoo[...]
Taylor Morrison is a quasi-creative, communicator, and a change agent. She leads employee engagement at a telematics startup by day, a brand strategy firm and an e-commerce shop by night, advocates for water and sanitation health in her spare time, and writes every moment in between. In this episode, Taylor and I are chatting about the importance of diversity and representation across[...]