AlterConf Portland 2016
2016-10-01
Portland, United States
[AlterConf Portland 2015, AlterConf Portland 2016, AlterConf Portland 2017]
who it's for
diversity and inclusion leaders, employee resource group leaders, transgender technologists, hr and talent acquisition, engineering managers, product designers, senior software engineers, community organizers
topics
transgender inclusion in tech; mentoring underrepresented engineers; workplace diversity strategies; mental health and self care; imposter syndrome in tech; gender and masculinity in tech culture; generational experiences of trans women; intentionality and bias in AI; privilege arbitrage for inclusion; burnout and low power strategies
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Female to Male, A Different Trans Perspective | Sev Leonard | 19m |
Transitioning from female to male in the mid‑thirties while leaving a corporate engineering job to start a business produces concrete problems: loss of the… | ||
| So you Want Diversity in tech? | Emily Bookstein | 23m |
Claims that lack of diversity in tech is more than a hiring pipeline problem and traces the root causes with a five whys root-cause analysis; cites concrete… | ||
| Selfie Care | Liz | 14m |
Selfies function as deliberate self-care: they grant control over lighting, angle, backdrop and selection so a trans woman can build a visual record that… | ||
| The Truth About Mentoring Minorities | Byron Woodfork | 25m |
Claims that mentoring reduces minority attrition with concrete evidence: an apprenticeship at a flight produces career placements when protégés get a strong… | ||
| The Power of Secrets | Sarah Withee | 30m |
Publishes a Medium post on Sept 29 revealing a transgender history and pushes it via Twitter, then monitors Medium stats and Slack responses; the post hits… | ||
| The Invisible Imposter | Kathryn Storm | 10m |
Anxiety and impostor syndrome are framed as measurable problems with concrete tools: naming spotlight effect, illusion of transparency and other biases, using… | ||
| Unraveling the Masculinization of Technology | Audrey Eschright | 21m |
The talk argues that masculinity in tech is constructed, not accidental, and supports that with history, data and examples: women served as World War II human… | ||
| Generations of Trans Women in Tech | Lynn Cyrin | 19m |
Claims that tech’s structure produces measurable survival paths: bootcamps over college as a route in, industry tooling like Django Rails bundler Ruby gems and… | ||
| Reflective, not Objective: Intentionality in AI | Li Zilles | 26m |
Claims that AI is neutral get overturned with concrete failures: machine learning is just algorithms trained on data and often reproduces bias, e.g. word… | ||
| Using Privilege Arbitrage to Increase Inclusion | Kojo Idrissa | 23m |
Argues that privilege arbitrage — consciously using higher situational privilege to benefit those with less — produces cultural change if practiced… | ||
| Low Power Mode... | Marie Chatfield | 16m |
Low Power Mode translates into concrete habits: ruthlessly prioritize by asking “how should I prioritize this with regards to my existing work,” drop… | ||
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