Alexandria has worked in tech for 13 years — at Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Airbnb, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and currently Lyft. Alexandria has carried roles of Recruiter + D&I thought leader to elevate programs and partnerships, along with re-designing approaches to hiring. Beyond her day-to-day, she does her knowledge-sharing through think tank sessions with various nonprofits and panels such as Black Girls Code, Grace Hopper Conference, and Expat Women. She is passionate about diversity engagement and community building.

Annie Tsai is the Chief Operating Officer at Interact, a SaaS marketing software company, and part-time Venture Partner at The House Fund. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (2001 — Go Bears!), Annie has 20+ years in building, growing, and leading a variety of functions across the non-technology side of the house at software companies in the US, EMEA, and APAC. Annie's passions include lifting up working mothers, ensuring the products are built by people who look like their customers, investing in improving public education, and ensuring every child has a safe place to sleep at night. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, two children, and pup.

Ashley has worked in the tech industry for over 10 years at a number of startups, including most recently at Stitch Fix. She has worked across multiple engineering domains as a full-stack, backend, API, and an iOS engineer and eventually as an engineering manager for iOS teams and backend infrastructure teams. Her software engineering career started with attending a coding bootcamp with a similar mission to combat the gender gap in tech, so she knows the success and importance of a program like Techtonica. She is passionate about making the tech industry accessible and inclusive to underrepresented, diverse populations. She currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and two cats, and she enjoys travel, wine tasting in Sonoma, tennis, and meeting her yearly ~100 book reading goal.

Marisabel currently serves as the Director of Tech & API Partnerships at Carta, a leading SaaS provider of cap table software. She has over 10 years of experience working in tech in the Bay Area, holding positions at the intersection of growth, marketing, and product. She has been trained to think critically and creatively across diverse teams to bring innovative solutions to the market and understands the need for diversity not only for a company’s culture but also for its long-term success. Having experienced IPOs and acquisitions firsthand, she recognizes the life-changing opportunities that come with working in the tech industry and is passionate about growing the female and Latinx representation in this space. She currently resides in the Bay Area, with her husband, daughter, and pup.

Monikka has 20 years of software experience and spent most of her career in clean, renewable energy projects. Her past positions include engineering at Stem, Apple, and as VP of Software for UniGen Resources. In her time at UniGen, the California Energy Commission funded them to prototype an analytics-based control system to increase renewable integration, which they successfully completed and demonstrated for the Department of Energy. Monikka co-founded her own company, Astrus, a platform for building 3D virtual spaces for artists and communities. She has worked with numerous D&I tech non-profits throughout the years supporting underrepresented groups in tech through mentorship and education.

Sheila is an experienced product and privacy attorney working at the intersection of privacy, law, and technology. Though her current focus as Chief Privacy Officer at Plaid is on privacy and data ethics, her experience at Twilio Inc. and Zynga Inc. has allowed her to develop as a utility player, at various points overseeing and building teams to manage product counseling, litigation, public policy, compliance, regulatory, and law enforcement response functions. Sheila is passionate about fostering a tech industry that is inclusive and making sure the opportunities it affords are open to people of diverse backgrounds. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, cross-country skiing, and hiking with her pup in the mountains.