December 15, 2014
TechWomen: A Platform for Women’s Empowerment
0:00:00.000,0:00:00.740
[♫ upbeat background music ♫]
0:00:00.740,0:00:05.320
I would say that TechWomen, for me, has been life changing.
0:00:05.320,0:00:06.140
Family.
0:00:06.140,0:00:07.080
Awesome.
0:00:07.080,0:00:07.960
Visionary
0:00:07.960,0:00:08.860
Sisterhood.
0:00:08.860,0:00:10.960
Tremendous!
0:00:11.700,0:00:14.580
My name is Sandra Al-arja. I'm from Palestine.
0:00:14.580,0:00:18.320
I'm a TechWomen Emerging Leader and I'm a Multimedia Specialist.
0:00:18.320,0:00:22.040
And I came here and I was hosted by BrightRoll.
0:00:22.040,0:00:24.820
And Emily is my Professional Mentor.
0:00:24.820,0:00:29.420
I work at BrightRoll, which is a digital video advertising platform.
0:00:29.420,0:00:34.460
For me, TechWomen has really become about lifelong friendships and
0:00:34.460,0:00:36.640
we've made this wonderful connection and
0:00:36.640,0:00:40.780
we're so similar, but we are on different sides of the world.
0:00:40.780,0:00:47.460
This program has been able to bring us together with a like interest in technology and digital advertising.
0:00:47.460,0:00:50.360
My name is Asal Ibrahim. I'm from Jordan.
0:00:50.360,0:00:54.560
I'm an electrical engineer. I was an Emerging Leader at Vista Solar.
0:00:54.560,0:01:00.760
I was hosted through the month of October and Sneha was my Professional Mentor.
0:01:00.760,0:01:09.300
I had the opportunity to learn the overall process of how solar projects are developed,
0:01:09.300,0:01:16.320
implemented, designed. It's definitely related to what I am working on in Jordan
0:01:16.320,0:01:18.320
I'm Dorothee Danedjo Fouba.
0:01:18.320,0:01:20.560
I'm a Multimedia Journalist.
0:01:20.560,0:01:25.660
I'm a TechWomen Emerging Leader and I was hosted by Mozilla Corporation.
0:01:25.660,0:01:31.700
I have a lot of difficulties to be in the multimedia field in Cameroon.
0:01:31.700,0:01:35.420
And for this reason I applied for the TechWomen program.
0:01:35.420,0:01:37.900
What initially drew me to TechWomen was
0:01:37.900,0:01:42.220
the opportunity to connect with someone of a really different culture.
0:01:42.220,0:01:46.100
And to support other women moving into our industry because
0:01:46.100,0:01:48.660
having been in our industry since the mid - 90s
0:01:48.660,0:01:51.780
I've been the only woman in the room a lot of times.
0:01:51.780,0:01:54.080
This program brings all of that together for me and it
0:01:54.080,0:01:57.320
ended up giving me a lot more that I didn't expect.
0:01:57.320,0:02:02.680
[♫ upbeat background music ♫]
