Renee Wittemyer
@reneewittemyer
Director, Program Strategy and Investment, Pivotal Ventures (Melinda French Gates' company) women/tech, innovation, former Intel, Microsoft Research (views own)
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27-11-2008 02:09:31
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Thrilled to see perspectives from several of my favorite change-makers featured on Evoke (new online community hosted by Melinda French Gates )-- AI pros @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @ayannahoward, designer @_GirlsGarage Emily Pilloton, bias researcher Women and Public Policy Program Iris Bohnet. evoke.org
“They took two years to design an AI automatic résumé scanner and they found that it was so biased against any female applicant that if you even had the word ‘woman’ on your résumé that it went to the bottom of the pile.” - Kate Crawford bit.ly/2Ij5Muw
New study by AI Now Institute shows that lack of of women and people of color in AI contributes to flawed systems and bias. This needs to change. Kate Crawford theguardian.com/technology/201…
Carla Brodley started the brilliant ALIGN program to broaden pathways into computing Masters degrees & tech industry for people with non-tech backgrounds and no previous experience (like a JD or MBA). It's starting to scale in a big way! Khoury College of Computer Sciences geekwire.com/2019/facebook-…
SO excited for this book to have hit the shelves. This message is crucial right now. Thanks, Melinda French Gates for writing this. I'm inspired by your words, so I commit to the lift by encouraging and helping girls & women everywhere to live life brave, not perfect. #MomentofLift
18 months ago, we sat in a small conference room dreaming up ideas on how to shape women’s representation in tech hubs as they grow. I couldn’t have even imagined that would result in the $50M collaboration that Melinda French Gates launched today. #GETcities fortune.com/2020/01/28/mel…
Caring for kids, remote schooling and supporting aging parents is hard in the best of times. In this op-ed Melinda French Gates explains why now, more than ever, we must fix our country’s broken #caregiving system. pvtl.ventures/2LbTFPS
Loving this first-of-its-kind #CARE100 list by our partner The Holding Co. featuring 100+ trailblazing entrepreneurs, policy advocates, artists who are re-imagining how we care for children, elders, & families. Check it out: care100list.com