SESSION + Live Q&A
Shaving My Head Made Me A Better Programmer
How do perceptions and stereotypes affect those in the programming community? This talk tells the true story of my physical transformation, and the surprising and drastic ways in which it affected how I was perceived and treated as a programmer. This new perspective allowed me to take a hard look at our community, and how it can at times be less welcoming and inclusive than we all intend it to be. This talk also covers the effects of unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, and stereotype threat within our community, and how to make engineering teams and our entire field more inclusive to all, and thusly more successful.
Speaker
Alex Qin
Software Engineer, Educator and Founder of Code Cooperative
Alex Qin is a Brooklyn based software engineer and educator. She cares deeply about access to computer science education, and about leveraging technology to create positive social change. She works at Skillshare, where she leads an engineering team, and co-organizes Codeshare, an inclusive and...
Read moreLocation
St James, 4th flr.
Track
Softskills: Essential Skills for Developers
Topics
CultureHigh Performing TeamsDiversity in TeamsShare
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