by Zaza Soriano
var GHC-CC = 'ABI GHC Communities Committee'
GHC-CC.job = 'Organize Volunteers @ GHC 2016'
GHC-CC.twitter = @GHC_Committee
The ABI GHC Communities Committee has some returning members (2015 committee) and some new members that manage various community activities at GHC. These include: note taking, blogging, and speed mentoring(A/B). The committee has been working for the past couple months to process and prepare some 140+ volunteers for GHC16. This year some of the manual intake processing was automated and will hopefully be polished in the years to come.
As the committee chair this year, I am very proud of everyone and will miss our late night meetings (well... late... for us east coast gals). Thank you for all the hard work you have put in to make this years GHC awesome! :) |  |
var ZazaSoriano = 'Chair'
ZazaSoriano.job = 'Embedded Software Engineer @ JHU Applied Physics Lab'
ZazaSoriano.twitter = @scuzy89
ZazaSoriano.favQuote = 'I\'d rather ask for forgiveness than permission - Admiral Grace Hopper'
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Zaza Soriano is a full time Embedded Software Engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). There she solves hard problems, increases national security, and delves into biomedical engineering. She holds a double Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida. Although her Father is winning their bet on who will become Dr. Soriano first, she does have the upper hand with their other dollar bet on who will have a patent first.
This will be her 7th year attending and volunteering at GHC, and first time as the GHC Communities Committee Chair. She is extremely active in STEM outreach and has been recognized multiple times for her STEM efforts at APL. When she is not working, learning new things, or volunteering, Zaza likes to hike, cook, and go on crazy adventures with her puppy Gluon.
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var FayeCheng = 'Future Chair'
FayeCheng.job = 'Future Communities Chair @ Anita Borg Institute'
FayeCheng.twitter = @fayecheng
FayeCheng.favQuote = 'Empowered women, empower women.'
| Graduate from UC Irvine and current Computer Science Master’s candidate at Mills College, Faye is a proud Sociologist turned Software Engineer. She enjoys a multidisciplinary approach to learning, and has a knack for programming, design, and product management. |  |
var CharnaParkey = 'Past Chair'
CharnaParkey.job = 'Customer Success Engineer @ Textio'
CharnaParkey.twitter =
@CharnaParkey
CharnaParkey.favQuote = 'When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. - Malala Yousafzai'
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Charna leads Customer Success Engineering at Textio, a fast growing startup in Seattle. There she is helping revolutionize the way we approach writing and how we measure unconscious bias with massive amounts of data. She holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Digital Signal Processing from the University of Central Florida. This will be her 8th year attending and volunteering at GHC, and one of many times advising the GHC Communities Committee. When she is not working, learning new things, or volunteering, Charna likes to knit, cook, and go on crazy adventures with her friends and partners. |
var AndreaDelgado-Olson
AndreaDelgado-Olson.job = 'Community Engagement Intern @ Anita Borg Institute'
AndreaDelgado-Olson.twitter = @316chic
AndreaDelgado-Olson.favQuote = 'I\'d rather ask for forgiveness than permission - Admiral Grace Hopper'
| Andrea is the founder of Native American Women in Computing and a Community Engagement Intern at the Anita Borg Institute. She is working toward completing her Master’s degree in Computer Science. Andrea recently collaborated with Google and Udacity on a course for the Android Basics Nanodegree program at Udacity that uses audio and content in her native language, Miwok. |  |
var GailCarmichael
GailCarmichael.job = 'Manager of External Education Programs @ Shopify'
GailCarmichael.twitter = @gailcarmichael
GailCarmichael.favQuote = 'Ask, ask, and ask again. The worst they can say is \'no.\''
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Gail is a computer scientist, educator, and blogger. She currently manages programs that promote computing and entrepreneurial literacy through education, outreach, and research at Shopify in Ottawa, Canada. She previously worked as a faculty instructor at Carleton University, where she has also completed three quarters of her PhD. She is passionate about convincing everyone – especially underrepresented groups – that CS is fun and awesome. |
var GehanaBooth
GehanaBooth.job = 'Security Operations Engineer @ Shopify'
GehanaBooth.favQuote = 'Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer. - Randy Pausch'
| Gehana is a security operations engineer at Shopify, an Ottawa-based e-commerce company, where she currently focuses on new approaches to anomaly detection and network security. She has become involved with outreach initiatives, such as her local Technovation chapter, after being inspired at her first Grace Hopper Celebration several years ago. In her spare time she enjoys rock climbing, dancing West Coast Swing, and flipping upside down in acro yoga and aerial fitness. |  |
var RosalindMcCullough
RosalindMcCullough.job = 'Network Systems Engineering Researcher @ JHU Applied Physics Lab'
RosalindMcCullough.twitter = @bluflame
RosalindMcCullough.favQuote = 'Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. - Mae Jemison'
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Rosalind is a PhD student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville studying Computer Science. She works part-time for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab researching network security strategies. Rosalind credits her current career path to being a Grace Hopper Scholar in 2014. She is passionate about supporting and creating paths to education in STEM disciplines for underrepresented groups. She volunteers at game-development workshops for children and serves as a regional judge for the National Center for Women in Information Technology’s (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing Awards. In her downtime, she enjoys attending wine tastings and traveling. |
var ChinaemereIke
ChinaemereIke.job = 'GHC Community Intern @ Anita Borg Institute'
ChinaemereIke.twitter = @chinamereabi
| Chinaemere Ike is a Computer Science student at Texas A&M University. She is a GHC community intern with focus on GHC community and volunteer support. Chinaemere brings various experience to the team by her volunteer roles at Youth for National Change for state of Texas and Black Women in Computing gaming workshops. You will see Chinaemere at GHC at many of our community events and supporting the GHC community committee and many onsite volunteers. She is a Syster and Black Women in Computing member and active in our community. |  |
var TamaraWashington
TamaraWashington.job = 'Patent Examiner @ United States Patent and Trademark Office'
TamaraWashington.twitter = @TamaraYWash
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Tamara Y. Washington is a Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She completed her BS in Electrical Engineering from Tuskegee University and her MSEE (optics) from North Carolina A&T State University. She also holds an MBA (finance) from Wake Forest University. Tamara is passionate about learning object oriented languages as well as full-stack programming languages. She is energetic about S.T.E.M. education for women and a huge advocate/supporter of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). She is actively involved in efforts to search out and uncover all of the super smart and talented technology people and companies that the DC/MD/VA area has to offer as well as bring together those people and companies to technical community groups for education and collaboration. |
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