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<H2>An evening for Tech Interns in the Bay Area.</H2>
Airbnb is excited to host our annual intern <A HREF="http://airbnb.io/events/taking-flight/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Taking Flight</A>event on July 25th, from 6-8 pm, in San Francisco. Taking Flight seeks to inspire women in engineering by bringing together established technical leaders & engineers in the industry with interns looking to learn, connect, & belong.
This years event will highlight women in various stages of their careers in tech. Our panelists will share how they have become influential players within their field, challenged conventions, & the different paths that led them to their current roles.
To RSVP, please register here. This event tends to fill up quickly! We encourage you to RSVP no later than July 20th.
 
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The event will include:
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<LI>A panel of women who will share how they've challenged conventions throughout their technical careers.</LI>
<LI>An opportunity for an intimate Q&A session.</LI>
<LI>Time to chat with other attendees in order to leave with inspiration & support beyond just presentations.</LI>
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This event intends an inclusive definition of "woman;" we welcome trans women, genderqueer women, & non-binary people.
 
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Additional logistics: 
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<LI>Check in will start at 6:00pm & end promptly at 6:45 pm so please arrive early.</LI>
<LI>Please note an email confirmation for this event will be sent to you if you've properly RSVP'd. You must be RSVP'd on this page to attend. We will not be able to accommodate any walk-ins.</LI>
<LI>Note that you'll be asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement upon arrival.</LI>
<LI>Please review this event's code of conduct.</LI>
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We look forward to hosting you!
 
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<H2>Meet our Moderator! </H2>
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Clara Liang,Director, Product Management,Airbnb
Clara leads the product teams at Airbnb responsible for trust, payments, customer service, experience architecture, data & infrastructure. Prior to this, Clara served as Chief Product Officer at Jive Software leading product management & design for Jives enterprise collaboration solutions. Before Jive, Clara held a number of leadership positions at IBM across product management, engineering, technical services & design.
 
<H2>Meet our Panelists!</H2>
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Aniyia Williams,CEO,Tinsel
Aniyia started Tinsel in 2014, in response to the lack of tech products developed with women in mind. After coming up with the idea of an audio accessory that doubles as a beautiful piece of jewelry, she left her role in marketing at the tech company Voxer to pursue it fully. Aniyia Williams has background in the arts & tech, as well as a decade of training as singer of classical music & opera. She has held roles in marketing, community management, business development & non-profit fundraising. Alongside building Tinsel, Aniyia serves as Organizer for Black & Brown Founders, board member of audio engineering non-profit Womens Audio Mission, & former Entrepreneur in Residence with Code2040. 
 
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Natalie Gordon, CEO,Babylist
Natalie Gordon is the founder & CEO of Babylist.com. Natalie graduated with a computer science degree from the University of Waterloo & started her career as a software developer at Amazon. After Amazon she traveled & lived abroad for three years. During this time, & while pregnant, she founded Babylist as a side project. In the 6 years since its launch Babylist has grown to a team of 25 people, & every month over $12 million dollars worth of gifts are purchased through Babylist.
 
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Dom DeGuzman,Software Engineer,Twilio
Dominique (Dom) DeGuzman is a community&self-taught software engineer with a background in desktop hardware & public speaking. Dom jumped into software & tools development after years of provisioning linux. Now focusing on Infrastructure Engineering at Twilio, she focuses on development pipeline, infrastructure security, & developer productivity tools.
Alongside development, Dom is one of the founding members of Twilio's diversity & inclusion initiative, runs a group called "Diversity Advocates", & is the SF City Director for Lesbians Who Tech. She spends her non-engineering time traveling speaking about diversity & inclusion, battling brogrammer culture, impostor syndrome, & encouraging more underrepresented minorities in the field to pursue a future in STEM.
 
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Jessica McKellar, Director of Engineering,Dropbox
Jessica McKellar is an entrepreneur, software engineer, & open source developer from San Francisco. She is a former Director for the Python Software Foundation, PyCon North America's Diversity Outreach Chair, & a maintainer for several open source projects. For her outreach efforts in the Python community, she was awarded the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013.
Jessica is currently a founder & the CTO for an early-stage enterprise software startup. Previously, she was a founder & the VP of Engineering for a real-time collaboration startup acquired by Dropbox. Before that, she was a computer nerd at MIT who joined her friends at Ksplice, a company building a service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux that was acquired by Oracle. These diverse experiences earned her a place in the Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2017 for enterprise software.
 
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Name: Nikki Ray, Software Engineer,Aibnb
Nikki Ray is an engineer on the Data Tools team at Airbnb. When she's not working on experimentation tools, she enjoys volunteering & exploring other (non-tech) parts of SF!