Tech Committee Member; Shifali Bose works at Adobe as a Digital Strategist for Automotive, working with senior leaders to identify digital gaps across the end-to-end customer experience and provide recommendations focused on the highest-value opportunities.

Anne (AN-ee) Caceres-Gonzalez is a first generation Caribbean Latina, born in New York and raised in the Bronx, whose intersectional lived experience has led her to advocate and create space for traditionally underrepresented communities in the workplace. Anne’s experience in people work extends across performance management, coaching, recruitment and learning and development, through the lens of diversity, equity and inclusion, connecting people, and advocating personal + professional growth. The love Anne holds for her own identity and deep, profound respect she has for others’, are constantly working together to create a space where underrepresented groups feel safe and seen. Anne’s life ambition is to continue to center the voices of underrepresented people, as it’s key in order to decolonize and redefine those narratives. Anne is currently the Director of People and Culture at Mischief, a creative advertising agency in Brooklyn, NY and has previously held roles at other creative agencies like BBDO, 72andSunny and FCB. Anne holds a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communications with a minor in English from Baruch College, is a member and has served on the National Executive Board of Lambda Pi Upsilon Sorority, Latinas Poderosas Unidas, Inc, where she has mentored and empowered young women to find their voice.

Lisa Chai is the founder and general partner of Interwoven Ventures, leading the firm’s investment activities in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence. Lisa and her team at Interwoven are investing in mobility, smart cities, digital health, and manufacturing sectors. Lisa has over two decades of investing experience in both public and private markets where she was a SVP and portfolio manager for Palisade Capital, TPG/Angelo Gordon and Credit Suisse Asset Management’s emerging growth funds. Lisa is a long-time supporter of Girls Write Now having been on the Advisory Council, Finance and Audit Committee, Treasurer and a member of the board. Lisa is currently on the Girls Write Now Technology Committee.

Mentor Alum & Tech Committee Member; Felicia Dodge is currently living in the big city (New York) and chasing after even bigger dreams. She is fascinated by learning new things and has trouble staying in the same place for too long. Currently, she serves as the Director of Analytics & Insights at Monks and was previously part of the Audience Insights team at Twitter, leading custom research initiatives and developing data-backed strategies for brands in the sports & entertainment industries. She has spent the last 5 years in the tech industry, working with marketers to tell compelling stories with data.

Mentor Alum & Tech Committee Member; Rose Else-Mitchell leads the education business at Scholastic comprising all the company’s products and services in support of reading development and children’s social-emotional wellbeing created for prek-12 districts, schools, and direct to teachers. With a focus on meeting the highly diverse needs of all students, Education Solutions offers unparalleled literacy content, book collections, instruction, extended/ home learning, curricula and professional learning across print and digital formats. Education Solutions’ innovative, equitable, and effective materials which support children to learn to read and love to read serve over 90% of prek-12 institutions in the U.S. First joining Scholastic in 2000 as an instructional designer, Rose became Senior Vice-President, of Product Development for the EdTech business in 2008, developing READ 180 Next Generation, MATH 180 and System 44, which were sold to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) in 2015. She was later appointed Chief Learning Officer and EVP, Professional Learning, at HMH. Rose also serves as a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and chairs the Industry Council of the EdTech Evidence Exchange. Rose began her career in education as an ELA classroom teacher in Sydney, Australia.

Pam Hacker is a social impact executive with proven expertise in driving transformational outcomes. With over 25 years of experience developing and managing global teams, Pam works with the world’s leading companies to harness the power of technology, talent and intellectual property to create opportunities for underserved communities to thrive. Pam’s career includes leadership roles within new and established Social Impact functions at Sesame Workshop, HBO and Warner Bros Discovery. Currently Vice President of Social Impact at Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, Pam leads global strategy, envisioning and actualizing the company’s mission to drive progress in the 60 countries where it operates and across the diverse communities where its 80,000 employees live and work. A lifelong New Yorker with a passion for theater, Pam lives in NYC with her family. She serves on the board of Opening Act, a nonprofit that brings theater arts to underserved communities throughout the five boroughs.

Jacob Lewis is the Co-Founder, Co-CEO, and President an Authorative. An experienced media executive, entrepreneur, and startup advisor, he has founded three companies across a range of industries, and has an extensive background in managing big and small teams—editorial, product, and technical staff—driving revenue and optimizing efficiencies. He has a demonstrated history of moving traditional companies into the digital sphere and is particularly skilled in digital strategy, content strategy, business development, product management, and operations. He has served as an advisor at Authorative, Holloway, Fletcher & Co, ReddyYeti, and Mic, and as a Managing Editor at Condé Nast.

Morgan Lin is a storyteller, social-impact-driven technology innovator, and interdisciplinary tinkerer with a purpose to amplify youth voices and promote digital literacy equity. An award-winning poet, her work explores human connection and intangible emotions, with pieces featured in Scholastic Art & Writing, Girls Write Now, Tiger Leaping Review, Noor Magazine, and Disney. In technology, Morgan channels her innovation into her app providing college resources and NightGuard, a device designed to enhance women’s safety during nighttime walks. She has contributed to projects through Google Code Next, NYU Tandon’s bioengineering lab, and NASA SEES climate research. Driven by her passion for bridging the digital divide, Morgan leads initiatives like Little League Coding, a nonprofit that introduces underserved youth to technology, GirlCon, an international conference empowering women in STEM, and the Public Knowledge AI Literacy Toolkit for K-12 schools. Morgan serves as one of 10 Youth Representatives at UNICEF USA, where she champions children’s rights in the digital realm and promotes mental health. Her efforts extend to policy, including contributing to statewide legislation to ban facial recognition in schools and combat algorithmic bias with Encode Justice. Morgan is a mentee participant in GWN’s Lead Incubator journey. Little League Coding (Morgan’s org)

Sophia One is a NYC high school student from the Bronx High School of Science who is also a Girls Write Now mentee and a member of GWN’s Lead Incubator. She is involved in many extracurriculars related to environmentalism, such as conducting social science research on climate policies, promoting climate action in government, and leading the Green Team at her school. Her other activities include volunteering at her local Queens Public Library, running an online vintage business, and participating in the National Honor Society. Sophia also has a strong interest in media studies and journalism, of which she hopes to continue in college. Besides her academic life, Sophia enjoys traveling the world, building legos, and watching Formula One races (a huge Ferrari fan!).

Lynda Pak is Senior Vice President, Technology Leader for Global Brands and Corporate Functions at Estee Lauder Companies (ELC). Since joining ELC in 2016, she has been passionate about helping business leaders make smart technology investment choices to shape and accelerate value creation. With over twenty years of technology strategy and operational experience, she has collaborated with executive leadership teams at ELC, Bed Bath and Beyond (BBB), Borders Group (BGI), and other leading companies in the consumer products/retail industry. Prior to ELC, as the Vice President of eCom/Digital and Marketing Technologies for BBB, she successfully led the redesign of the digital customer experience and their next generation digital and marketing capabilities. At BGI, she served as Chief Technology Officer and VP of Applications, and as VP of eCommerce Operations. Additionally, with over 19 years of consulting experience with Deloitte Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers, she has demonstrated commitment and success as an advisor to senior executive business partners to define and curate their strategic initiatives to drive business value. Lynda has led the delivery of very large, complex, and global ERP programs for key clients. Finally, Lynda built Deloitte Consulting’s global ‘Green IT’ practice to help clients reduce their technology carbon footprint.

Tech Committee Member; Dylan is a senior trader and quant specialist with the Program Trading group at RBC Capital Markets. Prior to his time at RBC, Dylan worked at Barclays Investment Bank. In professional and personal capacities Dylan volunteers with Hudson River Community Sailing, The LGBTQ+ Center, and Junior Achievement of NY. A DC native, he celebrates the diverse community and public education system that he grew up with, both of which he credits with his passion for learning and adventure.

Mentor Alum & Tech Committee Member; Ashna Shah is a brand strategist—helping brands and political candidates alike find and articulate their north stars. Having worked on campaigns for brands like H&M and Pepsi, and progressive candidates of color across the country, she’s honed her storytelling and narrative skills for maximum resonance and memorability, and has a deep respect for the power of the well-chosen word. As a mentor at Girls Write Now, she supports—and learns from—a talented mentee whose writing impresses and unveils unspoken truths.

Tech Committee Member; Alisha Stull is a Partner Engineer at Google, where she works with software companies that are hosted on Google Cloud on various Go-to-market initiatives. Prior to Google, Alisha worked at ServiceNow and SAP.

From mentee in 2007 to technical writer at Google, Girls Write Now has supported Natalia from high school to college, through internships and applying to grad school, positioning her now at the intersection of human and computer languages, enabling her fluency in both poetry and code.

Angela works at a New York-based hedge fund as an investment analyst, focusing her time on technology companies and working with management teams to achieve better outcomes. She previously was an investor at Blackstone and was active in the company’s investments across edtech, media, and healthcare. Her interests lie at the intersection of technology and literature.