Founder & Ceo
CurrentI founded Techtonica to break down the barriers into tech for the people who are most underrepresented in tech and most in danger of displacement by tech. Techtonica is a nonprofit that provides tuition-free tech training with laptops, living stipends, and job placement or search support to women and non-binary adults with low incomes. Support the cause to #BridgeTheTechGap? https://techtonica.org/donate▪ Founded a tech training and placement nonprofit for women and non-binary adults with low incomes.▪ Built and managed a distributed team—an eng training manager, curriculum developer, program manager, partnerships manager, assistant, advisory board of 10, and fiscal sponsor admins. Grew to +100 NPS (from cohort and staff).▪ Created and drove roadmaps for the open-source PERN curriculum, org website, and keyboard shortcuts practice app.▪ After crowdfunding $41k from 387 backers, established a sustainable finance strategy with hiring partners. ▪ Presented Techtonica’s vision to hundreds of corporate executives and increased the annual budget 14.5 times in 3.5 years with support from companies like Sony PlayStation, Stack Overflow, Cisco Meraki, Indeed, and AppDynamics.▪ Won a pitch competition and worked with Silicon Valley execs on marketing, business model, operations, and growth for 6 months in the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship’s GSBI Boost and Accelerator programs. ▪ Devised mission-focused engagement, brand, and event policies, strategies, priorities, and metrics to grow a diverse community of three main target audiences—2,500+ volunteers/individual supporters, 400+ sponsors and partner organizations, and 600+ participants from underserved communities. On average, graduates—88% BIPOC, 21% are parents, 21% with disabilities, 10% outside the gender binary, and 1% veterans—have tripled their incomes.▪ Organized special placement partnerships for grads laid off during the early days of the pandemic so 100% could have secure incomes.
