Women in Tech

Asking for What You Want

March 6, 2018 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

Who says English majors can’t work for tech companies? Before I started at 7 Generation Games, I worked for the UCLA call center, where I cold-called parents and alumni to raise money for student resources and scholarships. I’ll never forget that after telling an alum that I was an English […]

Intern Diaries Part Two: Who says English majors can’t work ...

February 20, 2018 in 7GenGames / Newsletter / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged English majors / intern diaries / Start-Up / tech by Hannah Wren

Maria and AnnMaria — If you’re active on social media, you very well might have seen #girlsbehindthegames, #womenbehindthegames and #womeningames recently trending. The movement was started by Runaway, a game company out of New Zealand, going both global and viral. The goal was to raise awareness about the need for diversity in the gaming […]

By The Numbers: Women in Tech

February 5, 2018 in 7GenGames / Women in Tech tagged Women in Tech by Hannah Wren

Mountains in Chile — For the tl;dr crowd, this post has two lessons: Never underestimate your own influence. Never miss an opportunity to learn from anyone you meet. This whole journey that ends with me in Santiago, Chile, started with a conversation with a teacher from a small school in Missouri. I had a […]

How Listening to a Teacher from Missouri Led Me to ...

December 17, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from October 30, 2016 “This Witch Hunt Looks Familiar” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. All of my life, I have been a woman in a “man’s field”. […]

Throwback Thursday: This Witch Hunt Looks Familiar

September 21, 2017 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech by Diana Sanchez

The slap in the face for women in tech

August 22, 2017 in AnnMaria / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

If you haven’t read, seen or heard about the latest hand-wringing over the lack of diversity in tech, just wait for the next one. It goes like this: Someone at some huge tech company does something sexist/ racist There is a lot of hand-wringing/ tweeting over how tech is predominantly […]