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  • Code Like A Girl

    This is the place women in tech come to be seen, to be heard, to be championed, and to say the things they can't say anywhere else. We'd love for you to join us for new stories each week from 90+ women who've lived it.

  • Karena

    Futurist/Speaker filling a unique space: “Raising future‑ready leaders”. Empowering parents & educators to anchor intergenerational heirloom skills as future work and life are transformed by new technologies. Ex Write of Passage editor.

  • Alyssa Fu Ward, PhD

    Sometimes it’s hard to human. Take it one step at a time. Through essays, illustrations, and AI builds, I share what I’ve learned as a psychology PhD and data scientist; and what I’m still figuring out as a coach, creative, and mom.

  • Valentina

    I expect your father has been reading Dante.

  • Neela \ud83c\udf36️

    The gurus have a funnel for everything except the truth. Essays for people who are tired of being optimized, automated, disrupted, conditioned, and otherwise improved.

  • Karen Smiley

    Learn how to use AI ethically and wisely without losing our humanity. Author of "AI Everywhere" series & "Everyday Ethical AI". Leads @SheWritesAI. Hosts "AI, Software, & Wetware". 100% #WrittenByHuman. Unaffiliated 🇺🇸. She/they.

  • Nicolle Weeks

    I'm here in this AI moment with you. I'm a journalist and storyteller. I've written for The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Today’s Parent, Channel 4, the CBC, and more. In Human+AI, I write about how AI is changing society.

  • Durva Mathure

    Solo founder. Vibe builder. Dog mom. I closed one startup, now I'm building the next one. Table for One is a community for solo founders where we network, learn, and build together. If you are a solo founder, apply to be a member of our community!

  • Colette Molteni

    I spent years getting ‘needs to work on communication’ before I cracked what it actually meant.

  • Kirstine Stewart

    I’ve built audiences, brands & companies through the biggest transformations of our lifetime. I Hate to Tell You, but the hardest part of disruption is recognising that what got you here - won’t get you where you need to be next.

  • Thais Cooke

    The human side of data and AI adoption. A practitioner's perspective for analysts navigating what comes next. LinkedIn Learning instructor. Speaker. Senior Data Analyst

  • Patricia Gestoso

    Over 20 years of experience in digital transformation, AI, computer simulation, and client services. Award-winning inclusion strategist. Certified coach for ambitious women in tech. Helping leaders harness the power of AI for sustainable innovation.

  • Dinah Davis

    I helped build the tech world for 20 years. Now I write about staying human inside it: burnout and recovery, boundaries with our devices, raising a teen, and the small joys that make a life. Founder of Code Like A Girl.

  • Katie Barnes

    Fractional COO for growing B2B SaaS companies. I write about founder bottlenecks, startup chaos, and building companies that don’t need you in every Slack thread.

  • Susan Colantuono

    Passionate advocate for women's advancement in organizations, discoverer of The Missing 33% of the career success equation for women, TED Talk: The Career Advice You Probably Didn't Get, author of No Ceiling, No Walls and Make the Most of Mentoring.

  • Maxine Meurer

    I help engineers understand how systems actually behave in production.

  • Manisha

    Simple ways to use AI in real mom life, save time, take the mental load off, and help your kids learn too, with your privacy in mind. Mom and technologist by day, figuring it out alongside you by night.

  • Louise Deason

    Most career advice isn't written for you. Technically Feasible is. Twice-weekly frameworks for engineers, PMs, and operators doing the actual work. Ex-DeepMind. Series A TPM\ud83d\udc47

  • Emma Wilson

    Techie turned writer sharing real-world lessons from building AI and software solutions across diverse industries. Practical insights from hands-on experience.

  • Alison MacLellan

    Exhausted mom to two amazing daughters. Channeling Eeyore. Somehow retired. Don’t know what I don’t know, and don’t know what I do know. But happy to chat about it over cookies and cocoa. This is where I write to think.

  • Uncertainty, By Design

    A space to examine the work behind the work: hidden labor, ambition, and the tech shaping how we decide, lead, and create. At the intersections of change and lived experience, I explore uncertainty, trust, identity, and what drives recognition.

  • Tina Yerkes

    Author, speaker, executive leadership mentor, and organizational consultant. I mentor women to thrive in broken systems and help organizations redesign the systems that constrain them. Writing on power, design, and what actually changes.

  • Anna(AB) Sutton

    Carrierfile.ai - Builder, designer, artist, attention activist, animation nerd, gen-x parent. Party in the Notes, practical lessons in the Posts for you & your AI to learn together. PNW, USA.

  • Lisa van der Linden

    AI Ethics Researcher | Writes about human-computer interaction, agency and an ethical & responsible use of AI | Ongoing M.Sc. Managing Risk & System Change | B.Sc. in Applied Artificial Intelligence

  • Lipgloss and LLMs

    Tatyana Amugo - an AI/ML engineer & writer building the AI conversation I couldn't find. Breaking down ai/tech, careers, and receipts for women who are ambitious, curious, and tired of being made to feel like they don't belong.

  • Cassidy McDonnell

    I host Women in STEM, a live show where every comic is a woman working in STEM. I write about ambition, desire, and delusion - the cost of wanting things, admitting it, and having the audacity to chase them anyway.

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