Latinas Opening Doors to the Future: Advancing Latinas in Computing

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Presenters: Gilda Garreton (Sun Microsystems), Ann Gates (University of Texas), Irene Hernandez-Roberts (IBM), Diana Gomez (SHPE), Maria Azua (IBM), Monica Martinez-Canales (Sandia National Laboratories), Ivonne Valdes (Sun Microsystems), Patty Lopez (HP)

Summary: This panel is considered a natural progression from the Birds of a Feather session “Latinas in Engineering” at GHC06 and this year a session dedicated to advancing career opportunities of Latinas in computing will be held. Six distinguished women who positively impact the Latino community will explore strategies to eliminate the opportunities gap affecting the community. They will also cover the impact on Latina students’ career satisfaction and on exploring opportunities after graduation.

Question: Pipeline issues. Problem to get young people into engineering.

Question: How can Latinas in industry help improve the pipeline? Any guidelines?

Question: Advice for other companies that would like to create a program to attract more Latinas?

Question: Advice for other companies that are interested in doing these programs?

Question: Do you do, or need to do, something to be successful?