CHI 2018: Designathon to Support Women in Tech

Karen is co-leading an exciting new SIG at CHI. To set the stage for the designathon, Karen and co-presenter Nicola Marsden will share the findings from a worldwide survey of women and men that reveal the underlying reasons for low retention. SIG participants will...
What If I Had James Damore of Google on a Team?

What If I Had James Damore of Google on a Team?

I’ve now read James Damore’s document about diversity at Google multiple times. James Damore is the 28-year old Google developer who wrote a long treatise in which he claimed that Google was an echo chamber of liberal ideas and that hiring women who aren’t good...

Fall 2017 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, As we head into Fall, I want to share my current activities: spearheading work on retaining women in high-tech, supporting universities who want to develop stronger programs in HCI including Contextual Design, and of course responding to clients...