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EmpowerUs, Sponsored by Google Cloud
Join us for the EmpowerUs session, sponsored by Google Cloud. You'll hear inspiring stories from women in open source, and an opportunity for meaningful interaction.
Moderators:
Radha Jhatakia
Program Manager, Google
Speakers:
Aish Sundar
Software Engineering Manager, Google
Jeana Jorgensen
Senior Director, Product Marketing - Infra, App Mod, and Developer, Google
María Cruz
Program Manager, Google
A
Women
and
those
who
identify
as
women
plus
non-binary
and
allies.
First
I'd
like
to
acknowledge
that
while
we
may
use
language
referring
to
gender
in
the
binary
of
men
and
women,
there
is
a
spectrum
of
gender
that
includes
non-binary
folks.
There
are
a
multitude
of
nuanced
experiences
that
we
may
not
be
able
to
adequately
address
in
this
session,
but
we
are
on
the
path
to
creating
a
more
inclusive
and
welcoming
environment
for
everyone
in
tech.
A
A
B
C
D
B
White
cisgender
queer
latina
immigrant
in
the
u.s
I
was
born
and
raised
in
argentina.
I
graduated
from
college
with
a
ba
in
communications,
with
an
emphasis
in
journalism
and
after
that
I
studied
for
a
year
in
berlin
in
the
european
college
of
liberal
arts,
which
is
now
the
bart
college
berlin
and
upon
returning
to
argentina.
B
I
entered
the
open
source
sector
in
2013
when
I
joined
wikimedia
argentina
as
a
communications
manager.
Wikipedia
argentina
is
the
local
chapter
of
the
wikimedia
foundation
and
they
focus
on
promoting
wikipedia
at
the
local
level
and
then
in
2014.
I
joined
the
wikimedia
foundation
and
moved
to
san
francisco
in
2015
and
then
in
2019.
C
If
I'm
going
to
be
successful
here
at
microsoft
and
I
started
on
a
monday
and
on
a
tuesday,
I
had
a
technical
mentor
who
I
met
with
three
times
a
week,
and
I
did
that
for
many
many
years
and
he's
still
a
mentor
of
mine
today.
But
my
way
into
technology
was
was
very,
very
different
and
and
unconventional
compared
to
most
people
who
had
a
computer
science
background
or
an
engineering
background.
D
I
started
in
tech
about
15
years
ago.
Funnily
enough
tech
wasn't
my
first
choice
back
in
the
days.
I
wanted
to
be
go
more
into
medicine,
but
as
luck
and
life
would
have
it
things,
things
took
one
direction
another
and
computer
and
tech
was
my
second
interest
or
love,
and
I
started
going
into
that
space.
I've
I've
been
working
in
multiple
companies
throughout
and
connecting
now
connecting
the
dots
now
looking
backward
from
where
I
came
and
where
I
am
right
now.
D
I
know
that
each
job
has
taught
me
something
different.
I've
like
learned
a
lot
of
different
skills
from
each
place
that
I
worked
in,
and
that
has
gone
a
long
way
in
making
me
who
I
am
today.
I
would
love
to
share
some
of
those
with
you
folks.
My
first,
my
first
job
out
of
college,
was
in
with
thompson
writers
a
long
time
back.
D
It
was
an
amazing
experience
because
that's
the
first
time
I
started
into
the
tech
industry
started
learning
what
it
meant
to
work
as
part
of
a
technical
team
towards
a
product,
but
the
biggest
learning.
I
would
say
that
I
took
from
that.
Experience
was
more
around
how
to
build
a
work
family,
how
to
go
about
working
together
as
a
team.
It's
not
just
what
you
do,
but
how
you
do
that
also
matters.
D
So
that's
something
I
learned
a
lot
from
working
in
my
first
job
and
then
from
there
I
moved
on
to
work
in
microsoft.
For
a
few
years,
the
biggest
learning
there
in
my
career
was
around
how
to
work
hard
and
also
play
harder,
which
I
still
carry
on
till
this
day.
In
my
team
we
all
work
a
lot
and
work
hard
towards
the
impactful
deliverables
that
we
are
all
driving,
but
at
the
same
time
we
have
a
lot
of
fun
while
doing
it
at
the
job
and
even
outside
of
the
job.
D
And
then,
after
a
couple
of
years,
few
years
in
microsoft,
I
moved
to
google,
which
was
a
phenomenal
experience.
I
started
off
as
part
of
google
photos
even
before
it
was
google
photos,
and
I
had
the
incredible
experience
of
being
part
of
like
a
startup
world
within
google,
and
the
first
thing
that
stuck
struck
me
at
that
point
was
how
open
google
was.
D
It
was
extremely
empowering
for
me
to
be
part
of
a
really
fast-paced
upcoming
product
and
make
a
huge
impact
impact
and
difference
there
and
from
there,
a
few
years
down
the
line,
I
moved
to
cloud,
which
is
where
I
am
right
now
within
google,
and
I
would
say
it's
been
the
most
enriching
experience
and
the
most
growth
I've
had
both
professionally
and
personally.
In
my
career,
I
opened
up
a
lot
of
doors,
around
learning,
to
manage
a
team
built,
a
diverse
and
a
thriving
team
and
contribute
towards
cutting
edge
technology.
D
That
we
work
on
today
and
cloud
is
the
place
where
I
got
into
you,
introduced
to
open
source
as
well
humanities,
and
I
had
a
wonderful
opportunity
to
contribute
upstream,
where
I
met
a
lot
of
awesome
allies,
mentors
and
peers,
who
I,
till
date,
being
I
get
inspired
from
and
had
a
great
opportunity
to
collaborate
and
contribute
upstream
as
well.
When.
B
B
I
also
learned
about
race
and
racial
equity
in
the
us.
I
learned
that
I
am
a
latina
and
not
a
white
person
like
I
thought
I
was
for
most
of
my
life
and
I
became
acquainted
with
a
particular
persona
that
I
described
as
the
white
man
working
in
tech,
and
I
I
I
think
of
this-
a
display
of
a
personality
as
opposed
to
their
this
person's
actual
abilities
and
knowledge.
B
For
example,
I
realize
that
some
white
men
will
speak
with
confidence
about
issues
they
are
not
familiar
with
and
they
are
also
able
to
draw
from
others
ideas
that
they
present
as
their
own.
They
are
in
other
occasions
locations
they're,
also
able
to
anticipate
what
is
the
right
thing
to
say
based
on
the
response.
They
are
getting
from
the
audience
when
they
are
presenting
something
so
as
a
speaker
of
english
as
a
second
language,
it
took
me
some
time
to
understand
that
people
can
lie,
pretend
and
manipulate
you
when
they
are
speaking
in
english.
B
In
this
sense,
I
had
to
decolonize
my
mind
and
I
quickly
realized
that
people
can
be
loudmouth
and
falsifiers
in
english,
as
well
as
in
spanish
and
after
I
decoupled
these
concepts,
and
I
decolonized
myself.
I
realized
it's
not
just
white
men,
and
this
is
where
I
think
gender
theory
can
bring
a
lot
of
flight
to
this
concept.
B
C
There's
tons
of
brilliant
brilliant
people
in
technology
and
one
of
the
things
that
I
had
to
overcome
was
I'm
not
the
smartest,
I'm
not
the
most
technical.
But
you
know
what
I
do
know
I'm
the
most
hard
working,
and
so
I
put
that
into
every
practice.
Every
problem
I
was
trying
trying
to
solve
every
business
challenge
every
technical
challenge.
I
was
ever
trying
to
solve.
C
I
worked
super
super
super
hard
to
become
the
subject
matter
expert
in
it,
and
I
did
that
by
talking
to
customers
and
being
really
fanatical
about
what
the
user
experience
was,
what
data
we
had
and
then
trying
to
formulate
a
an
opinion
based
on
a
whole
bunch
of
different
factors
and
data
points,
and
that
that
was
really
challenging.
The
second
challenge
for
me
that
I
think
we
all
face
a
number
of
people
face
is
how
do
you
establish
boundaries
before
children?
I
did
not
have
any
boundaries.
I
worked
endlessly.
C
I
loved
working,
I
still
love
working,
but
I
loved
working
because
it
felt
like
a
puzzle.
I
was
trying
to
solve
every
problem
that
I
didn't
understand
right
away.
It
was
just
like
trying
to
solve
a
puzzle,
and
I
love
that,
but
I
didn't
have
any
boundaries,
and
when
I
had
children,
I
learned
quickly
that
I
had
to
start
establishing
some
boundaries
about
my
work
in
my
professional
life
and
having
boundaries
establishing
them.
When
you
had
none
before
and
then
sticking
to
them,
and
that's
really
challenging
at
every
every
phase.
C
In
your
career,
whether
you're,
the
most
junior
person
or
the
most
senior
person
having
boundaries
and
sticking
to
them,
and
I
found
that
there
were
times
that
people
didn't
respect
my
boundaries
and
I
was
trying
really
hard
to
maintain
them.
And
there
were
other
times.
People
were
really
respectful
and
I
found
out
in
most
instances
when
you
had
a
boundary
that
was
known.
People
respected
them,
but
it
was
up
to
you
to
maintain
it.
C
D
D
D
It
was
not
just
learning
the
technical
side
of
things
and
working
with
people
who
are
veterans
in
the
area,
but
also
being
able
to
influence
others
with,
without
authority
being
able
to
foresee
risk
risk
factors
to
the
release
and
mitigate
them,
motivate
a
20
release
team
and
take
them
all
in
a
unified
direction,
interact
with
multiple
sigs
and
you
know,
prioritize
the
feature
and
put
the
release
front
and
center.
So
there
were
so
many
different
hats
and
skills
that
I
had
to
learn.
I
would
I
would
look
looking
back.
D
B
B
C
C
It
goes
into
a
space
that
doesn't
help
you.
It
doesn't
catapult
you
forward
and
I
was
talking
to
a
friend
of
mine
and
they
were
doing
the
same
thing.
They
were
just
telling
me
all
the
reasons
why
they
were
beating
themselves
up
about
this
thing
that
they
were
thinking
through,
and
I
remember
saying
if
I
came
to
you
with
the
same
problem,
you
would
support
me
you'd,
be
my
biggest
advocate
you'd,
be
my
biggest
cheerleader.
C
Why
are
you
talking
to
yourself
this
way
and
she
was
kind
of
taken
aback
and
stunned,
and
I
was
like
you've
got
to
be
your
best
ad
learn
to
stand
up
for
yourself
and
then
you'll
realize
how
much
you're
capable
of
and
so
then
coming
to
the
point
of,
how
do
you
support
one
another
when
you
can
stand
up
for
yourself?
You
can
actually
know
like
show
up
in
a
room
and
it
kind
of
comes
back
to
like
how
are
you
present
and
how
do
you
show
up
in
your
everyday
life
personally
and
professionally?
C
Are
you
show
up
and
thinking
about
a
million
other
things?
Are
you
showing
up
and
giving
attention
to
the
thing
that's
happening
in
the
moment
being
present,
you
recognize
so
many
things
that
you
wouldn't
have
recognized.
If
you
were
multitasking
you
you
recognize
when
it's
your
turn
to
speak.
You
work
recognizing
that
you're
trying
to
present
you
recognize
well,
somebody
may
have
had
a
bad
day.
You
recognize
body
language,
you
recognize
tone,
you
recognize
the
feeling
in
the
room.
C
You
recognize
things
you
never
would
have
recognized
otherwise,
and
so
the
way
in
which
you
can
best
support
another
person
is
you
show
up
and
you
be
present,
and
when
you
see
things
that
don't
feel
right
that
don't
sound
right
that
don't
look
right,
you
can
speak
up
and
you
can
speak
up
in
private.
You
can
speak
up
in
person.
C
You
can
speak
up
in
whatever
way
in
which
you're
capable
of
in
that
moment,
but
it
gives
you
the
opportunity
not
only
to
recognize
that
something
is
off,
but
then
take
action
against
it
and
for
me
whether
it's
racial
inequality,
gender
inequality,
whatever
the
inequality,
is
the
way
to
make
everyone
feel
like
their
voice
is
heard
and
to
be
seen
in
the
world.
Is
that
you
actually
see
them,
and
you
can
only
see
somebody
when
you're
focused
on
them
in
that
minute
present
in
that
very
moment
in
time.
D
Finally,
how
can
we
all
support
one
another?
There
are
multiple
ways
I
I
did.
I
spoke
about
it.
A
little
bit,
try
to
speak
up
for
yourself.
Let
your
work,
do
the
talking
and
make
sure
you
take
advantage
of
the
opportunities
and
for
folks
on
the
other
side,
who
can
actually
help
make
sure
you
pull
up
folks
identify
people
who
who
don't,
who
don't
talk,
much
who
are
lives
under
soft
spoken,
but
still
have
the
potential
and
try
to
pull
them
up.
D
B
A
A
A
A
A
I've
done
this
activity
before,
where
a
lot
of
the
participants
selected
a
man
because,
typically
when
they
thought
of
ceos
for
companies
or
the
way
that
they
had
been
introduced
to
like
technology
and
leadership,
most
ceos
and
high
rank
executives
for
men.
But
the
truth
is
that
all
of
us
in
this
room
have
the
ability
to
be
leaders,
and
these
stories
should
inspire
you
and
provide
some
insight
on
just
different
qualities
that
we
can
impart
within
ourselves
and
on
others
to
be
able
to
embody
being
a.