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The Empower Podcast with Emily Kennedy

May 22, 2019

While coping with PTSD from a birth trauma, Bekah discovered coding. She went from adjunct English teacher to web developer, and is an active member of Moms Can: Code and the online coding community.

 

On this episode with Bekah Hawrot Weigel, we talk about how to start coding from scratch, how to combat anxiety, advice...


May 16, 2019

She began her journey to combat human trafficking when a friend's 17-year old daughter was taken from a grocery store in her sleepy Sacramento suburb. Inspired to act, she co-founded the nonprofit to mobilize communities through prevention, education, and reintegration. Today we talk with Ashlie Bryant, founder of 3...


May 2, 2019

Rebecca Doerge is the Dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Under her leadership at her previous job at Purdue, the number of tenured female faculty doubled. We talk about how to increase the percentage of women in STEM, how to find your passion, how to deal with criticism, how AI and...