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Beauty with a Purpose: Career Empowerment Panel for Young Women
Ms. World 2013 Ms. Megan Young invites high school and college students to "Beauty with a Purpose: Career Empowerment Panel for Young Women" on May 27, 2014, 3:30PM at the Bnai Zion Foundation Auditorium at 136 E 39th St. (between Lexington and Third), NYC.
This is a free event for high school and college girls with the goal of empowering and encouraging them to dream big and follow their passions, no matter what obstacles they may face. Ms. Young will host a conversation so speakers will be asked to share their stories of success, the struggles and lessons they learned while moving up the ladder, and of course, providing encouragement and motivation for these young girls to pursue their passions and goals.
Our speakers hail from different finance and technology companies including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Square Space.
For over 50 years, JCI Philippine-New York continually strives to provide development opportunities that empower young people to create positive change. This is an exciting opportunity to partner with Ms. World and reach out to young women in NYC.
*** Please indicate your school as the organization when registering. Priority seating will be given to students, so please bring school ID. ***
Panelists:
Rebecca Garcia
Rebecca is the Co-founder of CoderDojo NYC, a non-profit teaching youth to code; part of the larger CoderDojo movement of over 200 chapters in 28 countries. In 2013 she was awarded as a U.S. White House 'Champion of Change' for Tech Inclusion for her work to bring STEM education to underrepresented groups, especially youth and women. Previously she was a Developer at Do Something, the largest non-profit for youth and social change, and CTO of Greatist, a health, fitness and wellness media startup. Currently she is a Developer Evangelist at Squarespace, helping to build tools for a better web experience.
Cokie Hu
Cokie is an investment banker and former strategy consultant and engineer. She works at the investment banking firm Morgan Stanley where she advises management teams and boards of healthcare companies on their most important transactions, including mergers and
acquisitions, debt and equity financings. She was previously a strategy consultant with IBM Global Business Services based in Boston. Cokie is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she majored in Biological Engineering and earned an MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Lucie Ondraschkova
Lucie is an incoming investment banking analyst for Goldman Sachs' Financial Institutions Group. Originally from Opava, Czech Republic, Lucie was a member of the Czech Republic Track National Team, and received a full athletic scholarship at the University of Georgia. As an undergraduate, she was an active member of the University of Georgia Track Team, regularly placing amongst the top 24 athletes in the NCAA in her event (heptathlon and pentathlon). Even though she enjoyed running track, she decided to pursue an investment banking career after college. Her junior year she interned at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division, focusing on insurance companies, banks and financial technology. She graduated summa cum laude with a major in Finance, Economics, and International Business and will join Goldman Sachs full-time this summer.
Nikki Stevens
Nikki Stevens is a programmer and active open source contributor. Shewas most recently CTO of Yellowsmith, a crowd-sourced design company.Prior to becoming CTO, she was a Technical Architect at LBi where sheled the development of American's Elect, winner of the 2012 People's Choice Award at SxSW. When she's not coding, Nikki mentors young women interested in technology and speaks at meetups and conferences.In the last year, she has been on on three women in tech panels, and given talks about the importance of diversity, best practices for software development teams, and automated testing.
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LocationBnai Zion Foundation (View)
136 East 39th St
New York, NY 10016
United States
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