Welcome to our 12th #aroundtheworld! Today, we will be discussing 5 Native American Women who are transforming STEM. Enjoy our article on Danielle Forward, Dezhah Hatathli, Gracie Young, Jessica Skye Paul and Andrea Delgado-Olson!
Danielle Forward
Danielle Forward is a Product Designer at Facebook, designing for emerging markets on Internet.org. She was born and raised in Santa Rosa, California, and moved to San Francisco, where she graduated as valedictorian with her BFA in Interaction Design from California College of the Arts. During college she had two internships at Facebook, both on separate teams for Internet.org. She is also the founder of Natives Rising, a website dedicated to highlighting Native American role models in tech and fostering mentorship connections for Natives in tech and Native students.
Dezhah Hatathli
Dezbah Hatathli is Navajo, originally from the Navajo Nation and now resides in Gilbert, Arizona. She studied Anthropology with Native American Studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Her work experience is vast and varied, and has previously held positions as an Archaeologist, Crime Scene Specialist and PD/FD/EMS Dispatcher prior to coming to Waymo as a Vehicle Operations Specialist. Her hobbies include Native American beadworking, sewing, traditional pow wow dancing, traveling and enjoying time with her 7-year old son Brody.
Gracie Young
Gracie Young is a senior studying Computer Science at Stanford University. She loves making things, from mobile apps and robots to floor rugs crocheted from recycled tech t-shirts. At school, she co-led Women in Computer Science, managed the Stanford Powwow website, and served as a Teaching Assistant for the Android development class. She’s had the opportunity to intern at Google, Qualcomm, and the US Navy.
Jessica Skye Paul
Jessica Skye Paul is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe from Northern Idaho and Lakota, from Standing Rock in North Dakota. Since July 2010, she has worked at Facebook, where she is responsible for global relocation, policy, strategy, and Facebook’s global corporate housing program. She obtained her Global and Talent Mobility Specialist (GMS-T) certification from the Employee Relocation Council five years ago.
Four years ago, she founded Native@, an employee resource group for Facebook’s Native American employees. She is also a current board member at The Friendship House, a San Francisco based nonprofit dedicated to recovery and wellness for Native Americans living in the San Francisco bay area. She started her career in Washington, D.C. where she was the founding member and Assistant Vice President for a local commercial real estate firm. She also worked for the Navajo Nation policy office and Native American Consultants. She has one daughter and currently lives in Northern California with her family.
Andrea Delgado-Olson
Andrea Delgado-Olson is the Founder and Chair of Native American Women in Computing. She is also the Program Manager for Systers and GHC Communities at the AnitaB.org. Andrea is a member of the Ione Band of Miwok Indians of the Northern Sierra region of California. She is a Computer Science Graduate Student with a background in Education with seventeen years of experience as a teacher. Her focus has shifted from teaching to working on outreach in Native Communities to teach various levels of Computer Science education and Gaming. While working on preserving her language within her family, Andrea collaborated with Google and Udacity to create a course under the Android Basics Nanodegree for Multiscreen Apps using her native language, Miwok. She is working to expand those efforts and gather teaching material to use as resources for other tribes to create curriculum to preserve language and culture for a multitude of indigenous tribes, not just from the Americas, but worldwide.
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