Tara Tiger Brown writes: Women who inspire and shape entrepreneurial thinking for profit and nonprofit work.
From Inspiration to Innovation by Tina Seelig I have listened to every single one of Stanford Ecorner’s podcasts. The driving force behind the series is Tina Seelig. She is an entrepreneur, author and professor. Every word out of her mouth makes so much sense. She has a new entrepreneurial framework that she has been working on called the Inventure Cycle. ”It includes definitions and relationships for the process of bringing ideas to life… and provides a scaffolding of skills, beginning with imagination, leading to a collective increase in entrepreneurial activity.” I highly recommend listening to the podcast if you are an entrepreneur.
In Conversation With by Kelly Hoey One of the loudest cheerleaders for entrepreneurial women on Twitter has to be Kelly. If she believes in what you are doing the world is going to hear about it and then some. She interviews women professionals, has been on countless entrepreneur panels and is working hard to close the gender gap. She’s also a fellow Canadian so she gets extra points for that.
STEMinist by Ann Hoang For the past few years I have learned about a variety of women in Science Technology Engineering and Math from the STEMinist interviews. These are the women doing their thing and not the three or four that constantly get talked about in the news. This is the place to go to learn about super cool people like Erica Moulton, a female marine technologist working on an experiment called “Fish In Space.” The mission of the site is to increase the visibility of women in STEM, promote and elevate the perspective of women in these traditionally underrepresented fields, and encourage younger women and girls to pursue careers in STEM.
Why the Maker Movement is Key to America’s Future with Stephanie Santoso I can’t express how happy it makes me that a female was appointed to the position of Chief Maker at the White House. Equally as awesome is that the CTO position is now filled by Megan Smith, but I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting her yet. It is incredibly important for young people and girls to know they are capable of being creators and not just consumers. Stephanie is one of the forward thinkers at the Office of Science and Technology Policy that coordinated the first White House Maker Faire. She gives me so much hope that we can change things at the highest level. Follow Stephanie on Twitter so you don’t miss out on what’s happening in the maker world at the federal level.
Using Lean Startup to Do Plenty with Very Little by Kimberly Bryant Anyone in nonprofit that teaches kids about technology knows who Kimberly Bryant is. Her organization, Black Girls Code, is “the Girl Scouts of technology.” Both Kimberly and I started our nonprofits around the same time and neither one of us knew what we were doing when we started them. I really like how she is using a framework for startups with her nonprofit organization. She is a tireless leader and an inspiration to anyone that wants to make a difference.
Hack Education by Audrey Watters The industry I work in is education technology and so obviously I have to read everything Audrey writes. She is a pragmatist, a contrarian, snarky and makes us all think really hard until it hurts about the future of education.
