Women Hack for Non-Profits Presents – #PanelForParity
Women Hack for Non-Profits Presents
#PanelForParity
Monday March 7th at 7pm
Live from Thoughtworks
Talk to us on Twitter using the hashtags #PanelForParity and #WomenHack
Meet Our Moderators
Elianne Schutze
Eli is a Software Developer and recently moved to the UK from her sunny home country of Nicaragua to pursue a Master's Degree in Advanced Computing at Birkbeck College, University of London. When she is not in class, you can find her working at a digital marketing agency, trying to fight the bitter british cold, and attending tech meetups.
Tweet nice things at her @elibelly
Funmi Oludaiye
Funmi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Howard University in Washington DC, but decided to follow her passion for coding into a career in software development instead. She spent three exciting years in New York working on a variety of server-side, front-end, and scripting projects, before relocating to London in search of a new type of adventure. She is currently a Vice President and full stack software developer and product manager at an investment bank in the city.
Funmi is an avid runner and world explorer, jumping at every opportunity she gets to race or travel. She also enjoys volunteering and experimenting with various technologies in her free time. She is currently an active volunteer and board member for Women Hack for Non-Profits.
About WHFNP
Women Hack for Non-Profits matchmakes skilled women in technology to open source projects for non-profits, charities and individuals with a good social cause. By doing so, we aim to enhance the skill set of Women in Tech to support their growth and increase their footprint in the open source community.
From planning and design to build and deployment, we offer non-profits a professional community of volunteers dedicated to bringing life to meaningful projects.
We provide our volunteers with a supportive environment to contribute and learn new skills through real-world practice, a growing shared knowledge base, workshops and ongoing tech events. If this sounds like something you are passionate about, join us!
What is Parity?
Parity is the state or condition of being equal, especially as regards status or pay. Women all over the world are still fighting for equality, not just economically but representation, media treatment and many other ways.
What does this mean to WHFNP?
The primary aim of WHFNP is encourage women to contribute to the open source community. Currently the male to female ratio in technology roles in the UK is unbalanced, with women only taking up roughly 14% of the roles in the industry.
Everyday our volunteers are actively striving to make that balance happen. Including taking part in this panel discussion.
Meet Our Panel
Vinita Rathi
An ex-Vice President Goldman Sachs, London, Vinita is a Tech Architect and Product Manager with 10+ years technology experience and the founder of Systango, an IT agency that helps founders and companies build tech products.
In her community time, Vinita is Director of the Women Who Code, London Chapter and is one of the founders of Women Hack For Non-Profits
Hera Hussain
Hera co-founded Chayn, an open-source project empowering women against oppression and enabling them through technology. She also partners with Empowerhack, an organisation aiding female refugees which she represented during the Techfugees Global Consultation Week live stream, and recently gave a TedX talk highlighting Chayn's outstanding work and mission.
Jade Daubney
Jade is part of the recruitment team at ThoughtWorks and is usually touring the UK in order to ensure her company have an awesome and diverse intake. She is not just extremely passionate about women in tech, but about equality in general.
Jade's ambitious dream is to inspire our future generation to be braver and proud of who they are.
Charlotte Fereday
Programme Manager at Code First: Girls, a social enterprise which works with companies and women to increase the proportions of women in tech and entrepreneurship. Prior to this she worked at The Cultural Institute at King's managing a broad portfolio of collaborative projects and co-founded an edutech startup Eulergy.com.
She recently completed her PhD at King's College London and is now learning to code with support of Code First: Girls.
Eddie Jaoude
Outside of his consultancy role Eddie enjoys attending and contributing to hackathons and conferences around the world which deal with a variety of technical and social issues. His first foray into the realm of Women's issues was EmpowerHack's "Empowering women and girl refugees" hackathon. Since then Eddie has contributed to EmpowerHack's Open Source projects from a technical perspective and has also brought his expertise and infectious enthusiasm to actively support the growth of women in tech at WHFNP and AcornAspirations. He has been likened to Sheldon Cooper from "The Big Bang Theory" with marginally more social skills.