Tue May 23 - Tue June 20, 2017
Mentorkind: Mentorship Happy Hour for Women & Diversity
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Are you looking for a mentor who will take your career or startup to the next level? Join us at Runway on April 5th for an exclusive evening mixer and become a mentor or a protégé in our pilot program. We will open with a fireside chat and Q & A with our exciting new speaker (to be announced in the coming weeks). 10 mentors from our platform representing design, code, data science, and entrepreneurship will be there to meet you in person.
If you are a woman or minority-identifying individual who would like to find a one-on-one career mentor or be a mentor yourself, we welcome you to apply to our formal program here: program application. Feel free to email any questions to [email protected]
About Mentorkind:
Mentorkind is a goal-oriented mentorship platform focused on bridging the career and knowledge gaps of professional women and minorities by connecting them with top mentors in the tech industry. We serve a group of diverse young women and minorities working in the bay area tech industry.
Industry reports show that mentored employee gets promoted 5x faster than unmentored employees and that women and minorities have diminished access to mentorship and miss the boat on better career opportunities. This is why our mission is to elevate 2 million careers in tech by 2020 by helping our protégés achieve career milestones under the guidance of mentors.
Attending Mentors will be announced. Stay tuned!
Past Mentors:
Sysamone Phaphon is the founder CEO of FilmHero as well as the founder of the professional women empowerment group Women Supporting Women. FilmHero is a social platform centered around Filmmakers movie screening events and focused on helping filmmakers monetize & license efficiently in a evolving digital economy. Her mission is to help filmmakers spark dialogue & call to action for social impact thru their film.
Sysamone is also a natural leader and fluent in win-win negotiation. She has been featured in Inc, Girls in Tech, and as an Influencer with the Lao Entrepreneur Magazine for the Laotian American National Alliance. She has recently quoted in both Financial Times and Observer magazine.
Brandon Richardson is Cofounder and CTO of Aperia Technologies, which is a partner with Michelin and received series C funding last year. Aperia is currently hiring mechanical engineers with transportation experience.
Brandon is experienced in all phases of product development, from product strategy definition through production ramp. According to the man himself, he is energized by "impossible" challenges.
Gabriella Cook is the Founder of St. Gabe, a cutting-edge Business Strategy and Marketing Consultancy. She works with diverse startup founders and is an active member of the LatinX and women entrepreneur communities.
Her company Saint Gabe creates business strategies for startups, companies, and individuals. With a focus on marketing, operations, and sustainable growth, Saint Gabe develops cohesive strategies that optimize business performance, attracts customers, and most importantly; builds authentic marketplace communities. Saint Gabe also works with social enterprise "businaries" interested in the business as mission movement. BAM leverages for-profit business products and services in order to create meaningful impact for individuals, their families, and society.
Jonathan Tzou is a passionate Data Educator and Co-founder of Data School. He is a self-described Product + Marketing guy with experience in growing + building e-commerce, edtech, and consumer products. His experience spans across biotech and consumer tech, and his mentees have gone on to great careers at Google and other esteemed tech companies.
Nicolette Robichaud
A self-taught designer with a major in Biology, she kind of took an unconventional path to product design. She would like to help other people like that find their way. Nicolette always had a love for art, design, and making websites, but had been discouraged from pursuing the field when she was younger. She’d love to debunk (or possibly validate) some myths that people have about working in the product design field.
Yari Moghadam is a technology enthusiast with over seven years of work experience in both large and small firms in a variety of different industries such as legal, financial, higher education, digital advertising, online publishing, and ad tech. His main professional capacities are in the fields of project management, business operations, web production, and ad space arbitrage.
As an immigrant, Yari is fully aware of the challenges faced by many up-and-coming professionals and is very passionate about measures and efforts that can help improve both the involvement and the growth of underrepresented demographics in key sectors such as technology.
Sam Udotong is Founder-CTO at Fireflies.ai and a graduate from MIT's School of Aerospace Engineering. He comes from a family of education, entrepreneurship and escapade, and is now looking to generate an impact on everyday life. Sam has unparalleled passion for unmanned aerial vehicles. He's also highly interested in helping individuals reach success through unique and innovative techniques.
Bernd Verst is currently a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and is on a mission to win the hearts and minds of Developers and IT Operators to secure the future of the Microsoft Azure platform. He’s also a wonderful code educator on the side and is a strong advocate for diversity in engineering.
Anam Khawaja is the Resident Design Mentor at Runway as well as a Co-Founder of GuildFree, a collective for freelancers doing creative work in San Francisco and around the Bay Area. She is adept at Branding, Visual Design, UI, and brings a great experience in educating young designers on how to get started in Freelance.
Ajay Dehsikan is the founder/CEO of Daka Labs, a growth consulting company focused on helping eCommerce companies generate more revenue. Previously, he was a growth engineer at TinyRx and Yesware, working on initiatives like free trials, payments, and analytics.
Meg Escobar has a decade of experience in executive operations & office management. She is especially dedicated to fostering culture and driving unique employee experiences. She has an affinity for building relationships and has made it her life mission to empower women in the workplace. She rolls up her sleeves and gets things done. She is Bay Area native who loves exploring new cities or losing time with her kindle. Currently, she is the Head of People Operations at Pillow Homes, Founder of Nesting Ninja, and Creator of the F-Suite Collective.
Christin is a Senior Service Designer at FJORD, an international experience design firm. Her diverse background includes a Master's degree in Psychology, serving five years as an elected official in German local government and co-founding a sociocratic innovation agency called Dark Horse with thirty amazing friends whom she met studying at the d.school. Dark Horse is collaboratively led by all of its employees and works without hierarchies.
Christin studied Psychology and Design Thinking in Madrid (Spain), Potsdam (Germany), Stanford (USA) and Cambridge (UK). And she usually doesn't speak in the third person about herself.
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If you are a woman or minority-identifying individual who would like to find a one-on-one career mentor or be a mentor yourself, we welcome you to apply to our formal program here: program application. Feel free to email any questions to [email protected]
About Mentorkind:
Mentorkind is a goal-oriented mentorship platform focused on bridging the career and knowledge gaps of professional women and minorities by connecting them with top mentors in the tech industry. We serve a group of diverse young women and minorities working in the bay area tech industry.
Industry reports show that mentored employee gets promoted 5x faster than unmentored employees and that women and minorities have diminished access to mentorship and miss the boat on better career opportunities. This is why our mission is to elevate 2 million careers in tech by 2020 by helping our protégés achieve career milestones under the guidance of mentors.
Attending Mentors will be announced. Stay tuned!
Past Mentors:
Sysamone Phaphon is the founder CEO of FilmHero as well as the founder of the professional women empowerment group Women Supporting Women. FilmHero is a social platform centered around Filmmakers movie screening events and focused on helping filmmakers monetize & license efficiently in a evolving digital economy. Her mission is to help filmmakers spark dialogue & call to action for social impact thru their film.
Sysamone is also a natural leader and fluent in win-win negotiation. She has been featured in Inc, Girls in Tech, and as an Influencer with the Lao Entrepreneur Magazine for the Laotian American National Alliance. She has recently quoted in both Financial Times and Observer magazine.
Brandon Richardson is Cofounder and CTO of Aperia Technologies, which is a partner with Michelin and received series C funding last year. Aperia is currently hiring mechanical engineers with transportation experience.
Brandon is experienced in all phases of product development, from product strategy definition through production ramp. According to the man himself, he is energized by "impossible" challenges.
Gabriella Cook is the Founder of St. Gabe, a cutting-edge Business Strategy and Marketing Consultancy. She works with diverse startup founders and is an active member of the LatinX and women entrepreneur communities.
Her company Saint Gabe creates business strategies for startups, companies, and individuals. With a focus on marketing, operations, and sustainable growth, Saint Gabe develops cohesive strategies that optimize business performance, attracts customers, and most importantly; builds authentic marketplace communities. Saint Gabe also works with social enterprise "businaries" interested in the business as mission movement. BAM leverages for-profit business products and services in order to create meaningful impact for individuals, their families, and society.
Jonathan Tzou is a passionate Data Educator and Co-founder of Data School. He is a self-described Product + Marketing guy with experience in growing + building e-commerce, edtech, and consumer products. His experience spans across biotech and consumer tech, and his mentees have gone on to great careers at Google and other esteemed tech companies.
Nicolette Robichaud
A self-taught designer with a major in Biology, she kind of took an unconventional path to product design. She would like to help other people like that find their way. Nicolette always had a love for art, design, and making websites, but had been discouraged from pursuing the field when she was younger. She’d love to debunk (or possibly validate) some myths that people have about working in the product design field.
Yari Moghadam is a technology enthusiast with over seven years of work experience in both large and small firms in a variety of different industries such as legal, financial, higher education, digital advertising, online publishing, and ad tech. His main professional capacities are in the fields of project management, business operations, web production, and ad space arbitrage.
As an immigrant, Yari is fully aware of the challenges faced by many up-and-coming professionals and is very passionate about measures and efforts that can help improve both the involvement and the growth of underrepresented demographics in key sectors such as technology.
Sam Udotong is Founder-CTO at Fireflies.ai and a graduate from MIT's School of Aerospace Engineering. He comes from a family of education, entrepreneurship and escapade, and is now looking to generate an impact on everyday life. Sam has unparalleled passion for unmanned aerial vehicles. He's also highly interested in helping individuals reach success through unique and innovative techniques.
Bernd Verst is currently a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and is on a mission to win the hearts and minds of Developers and IT Operators to secure the future of the Microsoft Azure platform. He’s also a wonderful code educator on the side and is a strong advocate for diversity in engineering.
Anam Khawaja is the Resident Design Mentor at Runway as well as a Co-Founder of GuildFree, a collective for freelancers doing creative work in San Francisco and around the Bay Area. She is adept at Branding, Visual Design, UI, and brings a great experience in educating young designers on how to get started in Freelance.
Ajay Dehsikan is the founder/CEO of Daka Labs, a growth consulting company focused on helping eCommerce companies generate more revenue. Previously, he was a growth engineer at TinyRx and Yesware, working on initiatives like free trials, payments, and analytics.
Meg Escobar has a decade of experience in executive operations & office management. She is especially dedicated to fostering culture and driving unique employee experiences. She has an affinity for building relationships and has made it her life mission to empower women in the workplace. She rolls up her sleeves and gets things done. She is Bay Area native who loves exploring new cities or losing time with her kindle. Currently, she is the Head of People Operations at Pillow Homes, Founder of Nesting Ninja, and Creator of the F-Suite Collective.
Christin is a Senior Service Designer at FJORD, an international experience design firm. Her diverse background includes a Master's degree in Psychology, serving five years as an elected official in German local government and co-founding a sociocratic innovation agency called Dark Horse with thirty amazing friends whom she met studying at the d.school. Dark Horse is collaboratively led by all of its employees and works without hierarchies.
Christin studied Psychology and Design Thinking in Madrid (Spain), Potsdam (Germany), Stanford (USA) and Cambridge (UK). And she usually doesn't speak in the third person about herself.
Are you looking for a mentor who will take your career or startup to the next level? Join us at Runway on April 5th for an exclusive evening mixer and become a mentor or a protégé in our pilot program. We will open with a fireside chat and Q & A with our exciting new speaker (to be announced in the coming weeks). 10 mentors from our platform representing design, code, data science, and entrepreneurship will be there to meet you in person.
If you are a woman or minority-identifying individual who would like to find a one-on-one career mentor or be a mentor yourself, we welcome you to apply to our formal program here: program application. Feel free to email any questions to [email protected]
About Mentorkind:
Mentorkind is a goal-oriented mentorship platform focused on bridging the career and knowledge gaps of professional women and minorities by connecting them with top mentors in the tech industry. We serve a group of diverse young women and minorities working in the bay area tech industry.
Industry reports show that mentored employee gets promoted 5x faster than unmentored employees and that women and minorities have diminished access to mentorship and miss the boat on better career opportunities. This is why our mission is to elevate 2 million careers in tech by 2020 by helping our protégés achieve career milestones under the guidance of mentors.
Attending Mentors will be announced. Stay tuned!
Past Mentors:
Sysamone Phaphon is the founder CEO of FilmHero as well as the founder of the professional women empowerment group Women Supporting Women. FilmHero is a social platform centered around Filmmakers movie screening events and focused on helping filmmakers monetize & license efficiently in a evolving digital economy. Her mission is to help filmmakers spark dialogue & call to action for social impact thru their film.
Sysamone is also a natural leader and fluent in win-win negotiation. She has been featured in Inc, Girls in Tech, and as an Influencer with the Lao Entrepreneur Magazine for the Laotian American National Alliance. She has recently quoted in both Financial Times and Observer magazine.
Brandon Richardson is Cofounder and CTO of Aperia Technologies, which is a partner with Michelin and received series C funding last year. Aperia is currently hiring mechanical engineers with transportation experience.
Brandon is experienced in all phases of product development, from product strategy definition through production ramp. According to the man himself, he is energized by "impossible" challenges.
Gabriella Cook is the Founder of St. Gabe, a cutting-edge Business Strategy and Marketing Consultancy. She works with diverse startup founders and is an active member of the LatinX and women entrepreneur communities.
Her company Saint Gabe creates business strategies for startups, companies, and individuals. With a focus on marketing, operations, and sustainable growth, Saint Gabe develops cohesive strategies that optimize business performance, attracts customers, and most importantly; builds authentic marketplace communities. Saint Gabe also works with social enterprise "businaries" interested in the business as mission movement. BAM leverages for-profit business products and services in order to create meaningful impact for individuals, their families, and society.
Jonathan Tzou is a passionate Data Educator and Co-founder of Data School. He is a self-described Product + Marketing guy with experience in growing + building e-commerce, edtech, and consumer products. His experience spans across biotech and consumer tech, and his mentees have gone on to great careers at Google and other esteemed tech companies.
Nicolette Robichaud
A self-taught designer with a major in Biology, she kind of took an unconventional path to product design. She would like to help other people like that find their way. Nicolette always had a love for art, design, and making websites, but had been discouraged from pursuing the field when she was younger. She’d love to debunk (or possibly validate) some myths that people have about working in the product design field.
Yari Moghadam is a technology enthusiast with over seven years of work experience in both large and small firms in a variety of different industries such as legal, financial, higher education, digital advertising, online publishing, and ad tech. His main professional capacities are in the fields of project management, business operations, web production, and ad space arbitrage.
As an immigrant, Yari is fully aware of the challenges faced by many up-and-coming professionals and is very passionate about measures and efforts that can help improve both the involvement and the growth of underrepresented demographics in key sectors such as technology.
Sam Udotong is Founder-CTO at Fireflies.ai and a graduate from MIT's School of Aerospace Engineering. He comes from a family of education, entrepreneurship and escapade, and is now looking to generate an impact on everyday life. Sam has unparalleled passion for unmanned aerial vehicles. He's also highly interested in helping individuals reach success through unique and innovative techniques.
Bernd Verst is currently a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and is on a mission to win the hearts and minds of Developers and IT Operators to secure the future of the Microsoft Azure platform. He’s also a wonderful code educator on the side and is a strong advocate for diversity in engineering.
Anam Khawaja is the Resident Design Mentor at Runway as well as a Co-Founder of GuildFree, a collective for freelancers doing creative work in San Francisco and around the Bay Area. She is adept at Branding, Visual Design, UI, and brings a great experience in educating young designers on how to get started in Freelance.
Ajay Dehsikan is the founder/CEO of Daka Labs, a growth consulting company focused on helping eCommerce companies generate more revenue. Previously, he was a growth engineer at TinyRx and Yesware, working on initiatives like free trials, payments, and analytics.
Meg Escobar has a decade of experience in executive operations & office management. She is especially dedicated to fostering culture and driving unique employee experiences. She has an affinity for building relationships and has made it her life mission to empower women in the workplace. She rolls up her sleeves and gets things done. She is Bay Area native who loves exploring new cities or losing time with her kindle. Currently, she is the Head of People Operations at Pillow Homes, Founder of Nesting Ninja, and Creator of the F-Suite Collective.
Christin is a Senior Service Designer at FJORD, an international experience design firm. Her diverse background includes a Master's degree in Psychology, serving five years as an elected official in German local government and co-founding a sociocratic innovation agency called Dark Horse with thirty amazing friends whom she met studying at the d.school. Dark Horse is collaboratively led by all of its employees and works without hierarchies.
Christin studied Psychology and Design Thinking in Madrid (Spain), Potsdam (Germany), Stanford (USA) and Cambridge (UK). And she usually doesn't speak in the third person about herself.
read more
If you are a woman or minority-identifying individual who would like to find a one-on-one career mentor or be a mentor yourself, we welcome you to apply to our formal program here: program application. Feel free to email any questions to [email protected]
About Mentorkind:
Mentorkind is a goal-oriented mentorship platform focused on bridging the career and knowledge gaps of professional women and minorities by connecting them with top mentors in the tech industry. We serve a group of diverse young women and minorities working in the bay area tech industry.
Industry reports show that mentored employee gets promoted 5x faster than unmentored employees and that women and minorities have diminished access to mentorship and miss the boat on better career opportunities. This is why our mission is to elevate 2 million careers in tech by 2020 by helping our protégés achieve career milestones under the guidance of mentors.
Attending Mentors will be announced. Stay tuned!
Past Mentors:
Sysamone Phaphon is the founder CEO of FilmHero as well as the founder of the professional women empowerment group Women Supporting Women. FilmHero is a social platform centered around Filmmakers movie screening events and focused on helping filmmakers monetize & license efficiently in a evolving digital economy. Her mission is to help filmmakers spark dialogue & call to action for social impact thru their film.
Sysamone is also a natural leader and fluent in win-win negotiation. She has been featured in Inc, Girls in Tech, and as an Influencer with the Lao Entrepreneur Magazine for the Laotian American National Alliance. She has recently quoted in both Financial Times and Observer magazine.
Brandon Richardson is Cofounder and CTO of Aperia Technologies, which is a partner with Michelin and received series C funding last year. Aperia is currently hiring mechanical engineers with transportation experience.
Brandon is experienced in all phases of product development, from product strategy definition through production ramp. According to the man himself, he is energized by "impossible" challenges.
Gabriella Cook is the Founder of St. Gabe, a cutting-edge Business Strategy and Marketing Consultancy. She works with diverse startup founders and is an active member of the LatinX and women entrepreneur communities.
Her company Saint Gabe creates business strategies for startups, companies, and individuals. With a focus on marketing, operations, and sustainable growth, Saint Gabe develops cohesive strategies that optimize business performance, attracts customers, and most importantly; builds authentic marketplace communities. Saint Gabe also works with social enterprise "businaries" interested in the business as mission movement. BAM leverages for-profit business products and services in order to create meaningful impact for individuals, their families, and society.
Jonathan Tzou is a passionate Data Educator and Co-founder of Data School. He is a self-described Product + Marketing guy with experience in growing + building e-commerce, edtech, and consumer products. His experience spans across biotech and consumer tech, and his mentees have gone on to great careers at Google and other esteemed tech companies.
Nicolette Robichaud
A self-taught designer with a major in Biology, she kind of took an unconventional path to product design. She would like to help other people like that find their way. Nicolette always had a love for art, design, and making websites, but had been discouraged from pursuing the field when she was younger. She’d love to debunk (or possibly validate) some myths that people have about working in the product design field.
Yari Moghadam is a technology enthusiast with over seven years of work experience in both large and small firms in a variety of different industries such as legal, financial, higher education, digital advertising, online publishing, and ad tech. His main professional capacities are in the fields of project management, business operations, web production, and ad space arbitrage.
As an immigrant, Yari is fully aware of the challenges faced by many up-and-coming professionals and is very passionate about measures and efforts that can help improve both the involvement and the growth of underrepresented demographics in key sectors such as technology.
Sam Udotong is Founder-CTO at Fireflies.ai and a graduate from MIT's School of Aerospace Engineering. He comes from a family of education, entrepreneurship and escapade, and is now looking to generate an impact on everyday life. Sam has unparalleled passion for unmanned aerial vehicles. He's also highly interested in helping individuals reach success through unique and innovative techniques.
Bernd Verst is currently a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and is on a mission to win the hearts and minds of Developers and IT Operators to secure the future of the Microsoft Azure platform. He’s also a wonderful code educator on the side and is a strong advocate for diversity in engineering.
Anam Khawaja is the Resident Design Mentor at Runway as well as a Co-Founder of GuildFree, a collective for freelancers doing creative work in San Francisco and around the Bay Area. She is adept at Branding, Visual Design, UI, and brings a great experience in educating young designers on how to get started in Freelance.
Ajay Dehsikan is the founder/CEO of Daka Labs, a growth consulting company focused on helping eCommerce companies generate more revenue. Previously, he was a growth engineer at TinyRx and Yesware, working on initiatives like free trials, payments, and analytics.
Meg Escobar has a decade of experience in executive operations & office management. She is especially dedicated to fostering culture and driving unique employee experiences. She has an affinity for building relationships and has made it her life mission to empower women in the workplace. She rolls up her sleeves and gets things done. She is Bay Area native who loves exploring new cities or losing time with her kindle. Currently, she is the Head of People Operations at Pillow Homes, Founder of Nesting Ninja, and Creator of the F-Suite Collective.
Christin is a Senior Service Designer at FJORD, an international experience design firm. Her diverse background includes a Master's degree in Psychology, serving five years as an elected official in German local government and co-founding a sociocratic innovation agency called Dark Horse with thirty amazing friends whom she met studying at the d.school. Dark Horse is collaboratively led by all of its employees and works without hierarchies.
Christin studied Psychology and Design Thinking in Madrid (Spain), Potsdam (Germany), Stanford (USA) and Cambridge (UK). And she usually doesn't speak in the third person about herself.
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