Workshop 5: Being the Bridge Builder: Mentoring for Individuals, Communities, and Organizations

Workshop
Monday, November 9, 2015 - 9:00am-12:30pm

Jackson

Larissa Brown Shapiro, Senior Engineering Program Manager, Mozilla

Abstract: 

"Being the Bridge Builder: Mentoring for Individuals, Communities, and Organizations" is a workshop for anyone who wants to be a mentor, is a mentor and wants to share their experience/learn from others, or folks who want to start a mentoring program in their workplace, project, or community. This workshop will start with the role of individual technical contributors who want to mentor, and move on to more structural/organizational approaches. Something for everyone!

Larissa Brown Shapiro, Senior Engineering Program Manager, Mozilla

Larissa works at the Mozilla project, program managing Firefox feature development, and was formerly Head of Contributor Development, where she led contributor development. Prior to joining Mozilla, Larissa was the first (and only) Product Manager at Internet Systems Consortium, an open source public benefit organization which is the creator and maintainer of BIND, as well as hosting one of the 13 root name servers of the internet. Larissa has worked in tech since the early 1990s. She has been a mentor for four years for women through the TechWomen project, is the leader of the Open Source Opportunities for Women mentoring program at Mozilla, developed an implementing partnership with the WeTech program for web literacy for girls and women in India, and travels worldwide supporting mentorship and women and girls in open source/open culture.

BibTeX
@conference {208681,
author = {Larissa Brown Shapiro},
title = {Workshop 5: Being the Bridge Builder: Mentoring for Individuals, Communities, and Organizations},
year = {2015},
address = {Washington, D.C.},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
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