Presented at
Diana Initiative 2017,
July 28, 2017, 10 a.m.
(30 minutes)
If you are just getting started, or are in a career transition moment, sometimes its hard to get the experience you need to move into the perfect job that you want. If you are new to the industry, you may find it hard to build confidence in a world where so many people imagine that you have to be a Hollywood hacker (complete with hoody) to have any value on a team. We'll tell you how you can use volunteer opportunities to build your resume and your confidence.
We'll share stories from Standing Rock, North Dakota; Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; Ranchi, India; and Glasgow, Scotland to show how volunteers have sharpened their skills, built their cred, and gotten jobs that changed their lives. We'll talk about why we say "cooperation > competition", and how we use pair-coding and pair-hacking to improve outcomes for everyone involved. We'll also share information about upcoming opportunities to get involved by teaching kids on Native American Reservations and in inner cities, organizing or taking part in RHoKSec (Random Hacks of Kindness Security) events, or providing IT sec support to activists, lawyers and journalists.
Presenters:
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Lisa Ling
Lisa Ling served as an army medic and nurse before transferring to the Air National Guard where she became a communications technician working with databases and on various types of electronic equipment including DCGS (Distributed Common Ground System). She became a drone whistleblower and was one of three protagonists in the documentary film National Bird directed by Sonia Kennebeck. In 2016 she joined the Geeks Without Bounds team on the ground at Standing Rock, providing digital security in support of the Water Protectors and their allies. Now she is heading up the new program for drone builders and pilots at GWOB, and believes that drones can provide important safety and security documenting actions in real time.
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Lisha Sterling
Lisha Sterling is the executive director of Geeks Without Bounds. Her dad bought her first computer for her when she was 8 -- a Timex Sinclair 1000 -- because he knew that she'd need to know how to program when she grew up. Her early programming experience paid off when she was a college student with two young children. A friend pointed out that despite the fact that she was studying something totally unrelated she could get a job as a programmer and make 5 times what she made as a part time administrative assistant. Ever since then, she's paid that favor forward by mentoring women and minorities in programming, IT, and cybersecurity.
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