Projects & Organizations
Current projects & organizations
I'm always working on some kind of side-project (or multiple ones): volunteering at a local community or non-profit organization, studying something new, working on a random project with friends or by myself. Sometimes they turn into something bigger (resume-worthy), and sometimes they don't. In any case, here's what I'm currently working on:
I'm currently studying Sustainable Development on Coursera, taught by no one less than the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs. The course is incredible and it's giving me a lot of inspiration to do some work related to sustainable development and the UN's SDGs.
I'm also currently a part of cohort 5 of the Climatebase Fellowship! 🎉 The Climatebase Fellowship is a 12-week interdisciplinary and industry-relevant educational experience, led by climate experts, business leaders, and employers in climate solutions.
As I take a partial turn in my career, I'll be soon searching for local communities and non-profit organizations in the realm of sustainable development and/or climate to start putting some of my new knowledge to practice and contributing to these important causes hands-on. Feel free to contact me if you think you know just the right organization I should connect with :)
Fun facts (or not):
This website was originally an open-source coding side project, implemented using Nuxt.js and hosted on Netlify. But eventually I decided to migrate it to Squarespace. I know most software engineers these days want to (or feel pressured to) implement their own blog engines, but I decided I have better things to do with my time than reinventing the wheel to have a decent CMS
If you're under the (wrong) impression that all my side-projects are very successful, check out a ton of abandoned ideas that never left the "Hello World" stage on my github :)
You can also check out my former projects and organizations in the section below.
Former projects & organizations
SCORE San Francisco
https://www.score.org/sanfrancisco
Find a mentor | Attend a workshop
SCORE is a non-profit organization affiliated with the U.S. Small Business Administration, with more than 250 chapters dedicated to fostering vibrant small business communities across the US through mentoring and education. I was a volunteer for the San Francisco chapter, helping with chapter operations, workshops and volunteer one-on-one mentorship to small business owners.
Women Who Code Tokyo
Contact / Getting Involved
Become a member to get access to many helpful resources and events all over the world
Join WWCode Tokyo meetup group and go to their local events
Become a leader in one of the WWCode chapters across the world
No chapter in your city? Be the badass leader that will start one
Become a local sponsor by donating or hosting their events
Or simply support us on social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
https://www.womenwhocode.com
WWCode Tokyo @ Meetup.com
Women Who Code is a global non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. I was a Director of the Tokyo chapter. We organized events focused on networking, knowledge sharing, development of technical and non-technical skills, inspiration and mentorship. The organization also provides volunteer leadership and public speaking opportunities. In this article I explain in a bit more detail about what were doing at Women Who Code Tokyo.
The Lead Dev Meetup (Tokyo)
https://theleaddeveloper.com
Lead Dev Tokyo @ Meetup.com
Lead Dev is a series of conferences and meetups designed with the needs and pain points of technical team leads in mind. It started with a conference in London and expanded to have events in Edinburgh, New York, Austin, Berlin, San Francisco, and Tokyo. I was one of the organizers of the meetup series in Tokyo. All the events are around three key themes: Teams, Tech & Tools. They invite speakers to talks about their experience in these areas and have some networking time over food and drinks.
The Lead Dev has been holding some online events and they even started an online publication, with some great articles written by industry leaders. I also published an article with them: A data-centric approach to understanding underrepresentation.
Contact / Getting Involved
Check out more about The Lead Dev and official events on the official website
Join their Tokyo Meetup group and come to our local events
Join the conversation on Twitter by following @TheLeadDev or using the hashtag #LeadDevMeetup
Submit your talk proposal to one of the meetups
Get in touch to become a host or sponsor
SpeakHer.jp
https://speakher.jp
SpeakHer on Github
This idea came from my friend Yan Fan her friend Emi Takemura as a way to uncover and give vibility to women public speakers in Japan, encouraging more diversity in conference lineups and panels. So I gathered Yan and Ann Kilzer and we started working on this project together. The project is (for now) a serverless Vue.js site, using Airtable as the database and hosted on Netlify . It's also an open-source project being developed under the the Women Who Code Tokyo github organization.