Episode 007: Overcoming Adversity and Battling Unconscious Bias with Neem Serra




Greater Than Code show

Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/jaybobo"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jay Bobo</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">|</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ianthro"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Astrid Countee</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b> <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamNeem"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Neem Serra<br> </span></a><a href="http://neemserra.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blog<br> </span></a><a href="https://www.meetup.com/GDG-St-Louis-Google-Developers-Group-St-Louis/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Women Techmakers group in St. Louis<br> </span></a><a href="http://www.asynchrony.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Asynchrony Labs</span></a></p> <p></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Welcome to Greater Than Code<br> </span><b>02:02</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Neem Serra Introduction</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://neemserra.com/from-babies-to-software-development/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Neem Serra: “From Babies to Software Development”</span></a></p> <p><b>03:23</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – 2016 Election Thoughts, Fears, and Aspirations; Importance of Ally Support</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.gphistorical.org/mlk/mlkspeech/mlk-gp-speech.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The Other America”</span></a></p> <p><b>14:51</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Overcoming Adversity and Getting Into Science</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomics"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Genomics</span></a></p> <p><b>26:27</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Switching from Science to Programming and Getting a Job</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://software-carpentry.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Software Carpentry<br> </span></a><a href="https://www.nsbe.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Society of Black Engineers<br> </span></a><a href="http://www.handsupunited.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">HandsUp United<br> </span></a><a href="https://projecteuler.net/">Project Euler</a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>We are (currently) listener supported! Support us via </b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b>!<br> </b><b>Thank you, </b><a href="https://twitter.com/matthucke"><b>Matt Hucke</b></a><b>, for your support!</b></p> <p><b>33:53</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Volunteering and Being Empathetic and Inclusive</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">“I feel like most of my job some days is helping people try to be empathetic. Nobody gives me a raise for that.”<a href="https://twitter.com/TeamNeem">@TeamNeem</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/greaterthancode">@greaterthancode</a></p> <p>— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) <a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/796417838428913664">November 9, 2016</a></p> </blockquote> <p><b>47:36 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Battling Unconscious Bias<br> </span><b>55:17 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Programming in Swift</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no12EfZUSQo"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Swift Playgrounds Demo with a Twist</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Takeaways:</b></p> <p><b>Astrid</b></p>