GHC Community: Community Leads
Lead Note Taker and Wiki Master
There is no way to make all the conference sessions! The GHC lead note taker/wiki master and her team will be bringing you facts, stats, and perspectives.
Kimberly Blessing is a Web developer, standards evangelist, and technical strategist. At PayPal she leads the Web Development Platform Team and she runs KimmieCorp, a Web consultancy. Kimberly serves as co-group lead of The Web Standards Project, a grass roots coalition of designers, developers, and browser makers that fights for Web standards. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College (B.A., Computer Science) and The George Washington University (M.Sc., Computer Science), Kimberly is also an advocate for increasing the number of women in computing and technology fields.
MySpace Lead
GHC has found a home and MySpace. It is a place where conference presenters past and present share their thoughts and participants can connect.
Erin Buxton is the Publicity and Outreach Chair for the Grace Hopper Celebration. She currently runs the official Grace Hopper MySpace page where she interviews key women in technology, blogs, and posts interesting video finds of women and technology. Erin has been in a variety of technical roles for over 11 years, from the engineering department at Cisco, consulting and product management at Schlumberger, to security specialist and IT architect & strategist at Halliburton. She is a faculty member and regularly presents for the IANETSEC conference on compliance, records management, and e-discovery. She is the founding Program Chair for Halliburton’s young profession organization, iMPACT. Erin is passionate about technology and empowering women reach their dreams and have all they want in life.
Facebook Group Lead
There are GHC 2007 and Alumni groups on Facebook. You are probably already there so get connected, show your conference pride, and maybe find a ride to the airport or a roommate.
Angelica Lim attends Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada, studying Computing Science and French. Active in her school CS community, she has served as President of both the Women in Computing Science and overall Computing Science Student Society groups.
In 2005, she was bit by the travel bug and moved to the French Riviera to perfect the language and serve as Code Monkey and Communications Coordinator for the Têtard Underwater Autonomous Robotics team. Now back at SFU, she has started her own robotics group, Nexus 6, and will be participating at the Richard Tapia robotics competition in October. Her other interests include the complementary activities of cooking and fitness training, as well as playing Scrabulous on Facebook. She has been attending GHC since 2002 and looks forward to conference blogging and volunteering for the second year in a row.
Chat Room Moderator
During GHC, the place to be in virtual space is our chat room. The chat room moderator is there to keep the discussion going and help as needed.
Tiffany Ralph is a Senior at Colorado State University, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in History. She has been involved with several research projects both at university and abroad, focusing on topics ranging from web usability to learning from games. She is a member of her local ACM and has recently started a weekly “Web Stuff” meeting within the chapter. Last summer Tiffany interned at Google in Mountain View, and the summer before she interned at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Tiffany says, “I enjoy the Internet probably too much, go skiing not nearly enough, and should probably be spending more time with my kitten than my computer.”
Lead Video Blogger (vLogger)
Recording your perspectives and experiences at GHC, the lead vlogger and his team will give you an opportunity to give a face and voice to women in computing.
About Eric Mason: Eric has been one of the men working to carry out the mission of the Anita Borg Institute since 1999. Eric was first official employee at the Institute and worked intimately with Anita, the Board of Trustees and Advisors and community until her passing in 2003.
Before joining Anita, Eric lived and worked within a men’s Islamic Pesantren in rural East Java, Indonesia as part of Volunteers In Asia, a Stanford affiliated post graduate program. Before this, Eric spent five professional seasons racing triathlons around the United States and the world. Eric was sponsored by, and did product representation for, a wide variety of companies including, Trek Bicycles, Freestyle, Cruzo Corporation, Anheuser Busch and PowerBar.
GHC Queen of Community
The Program Manager of Online Communities at the Anita Borg Institute, the ‘queen of community’ is bringing together a diverse group of GHC evangelists to make this year’s conference a more enriching experience.
About Erica Rios: Erica applies interdisciplinary approaches to technology assessment, management and creation. She holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Computer Science from Mills College and Bachelor’s in Political Science from the University of California, Davis.
In her free time she enjoys jogging, listening to Shakira and Juanes in perpetuity, reading, blogging, and Twittering.