I’ve been selected as one of 120 technologists to participate as the 2nd cohort of the LinkedIn Creator Accelerator program! For the next 6-weeks you’ll be seeing content from me about everything from Product Management to Civic Tech to Privacy and more!
See Business Insider article announcement here.
Follow me on LinkedIn to join in on the conversation!
Everyone has an origin story... Who they are, where they're from, and why they do what they do. So honored this Women's History Month to be interviewed by @isabelwongtv on @proudly.asian podcast! 🗣️🎙️We talk culture, values, work, heritage and my Asian American experience. It's hard to tell my story without telling my mom's story, and her mom's story... So tune in for our multi-generational tale of the American Dream 💥🇭🇰🇺🇲🗽
👉 Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcast 👈
#womenshistorymonth #womensupportingwomen #aapi
Honoring and celebrating Veterans through service design. Take a listen to my latest appearance on #ShiftHappens Podcast!
I’m joined by Chief Brand Officer, Dux Raymond Sy at AvePoint to talk through my time as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow — and the challenges and need for technologists in the government. Listen below, or on any major podcast platform. Original post found here.
I join Graham Wilkinson from Kinesso Global to chat about my experiences in government and my time as a Presidential Innovation Fellow. Tune in for a podcast on “Innovation for Humanity.”
Honored to moderate a panel at this years (virtual) Grace Hopper Conference, the largest Women In Computing gathering in the world! With over 30,000 attendees GHC is hope to celebrating women in STEM! I led a panel on Digital Tours of Duty! Description and preview below.
As I wrap up my second year as a Presidential Innovation Fellow, I published a blogpost on Digital.gov on How Serving in Government Made Me a Better Designer and Product Manager - Read here!
We made history at the FIRST EVER National Period Day rally. So thrilled to serve for Days For Girls International, and be a voice for this IMPORTANT cause. Together, let’s make access to menstrual care a BASIC RIGHT. Watch my speech below on the nation’s Capitol fighting and advocating for the end to #PeriodPoverty.
The US Dept of Veterans Affairs has been partnering with the Harvard Kennedy School for the past 4 years as clients for a graduate class: Government & Innovation DPI 663
A team of students were paired with a Government agency to help partner in gathering human centered design insights that can help technologists better serve users and citizens. I led our group as the client and they helped the VA gather user interviews and stories about how we’re communicating with them — and what we could be doing more effectively. Read the full blog post by the students themselves: https://innovategovernment.org/va-blog-2019
Cross-sector exchange and cultivating a pipeline for citizens and technologists to take an interest at the intersection of Civic Tech is critical in modernizing our Government! Thank you Nick Sinai for your continued partnership with Harvard Kennedy School.
The DCFemTech Awards recognize Power Women in Code, Design, and Data based in the Washington, DC region.
Nominated by their community, these women are working in the trenches of tech to help their company or organization achieve success, sometimes entirely behind the scenes. Read the full media alert.
The Presidential Innovation Fellows take a field trip to the NASA Wallops Space Facility to watch the Antares shuttle launch! The shuttle was a refuel mission to the International Space Station. So proud to be a technologist in US Government! Our ambition in Space Exploration is the HALLMARK of American Innovation.
Thrilled to finally publicly announce that I’ll be taking a new role in 2019 as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow! Read the GSA announcement and more on FedScoop
Really excited to be joining this incredible group of civic technologists looking to make a difference in government.
Days for Girls (www.daysforgirls.org) is an international non-profit focused on providing women and girls with access to feminine hygiene, health education, and income-generating opportunities.
I first learned about them when I was on a business trip to Guatemala. I soon learned that there are still about 300 million women around the world living on less than $1.25 a day. Without access to feminine hygiene solutions or health education, girls miss school, women can't work, and families can't effectively family plan.
By providing basic solutions to a universal and age-old matter, Days for Girls is giving women time and dignity back to their lives, ultimately empowering woman everywhere to achieve more. I first learned about the organization in the spring of 2017 and instantly fell in love with the mission. They have already reached 1 million women and girls to date.
I'm excited to announce that I will be joining their Board of Directors!
Join me in fundraising https://donate.daysforgirls.org/clarice
I had the pleasure of attending the Business Social Responsibility conference in Huntington Beach this week. The conference was packed with conscious business change agents focused on understanding how we can ensure our business practices are leading with responsibility.
Al Gore delivered a powerful and captivating keynote speech to the crowd on how far we've come. Microsoft's Chief Legal Officer, Brad Smith, also delivered an amazing keynote on how Microsoft is thinking about Corporate Social Responsibility. Check out the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQpEgihDqEQ
Create and Cultivate host their Seattle conference here on the Microsoft campus. It was amazing seeing this collective of female leaders, bloggers and influencers come together to celebrate and cultivate a new generation of female entrepreneurship.
Caitlin Jenner swings by Microsoft on her book tour sharing her journey. Being an Olympic athlete is no joke... She towers over me at 6'2".
WE is a movement that brings people together and gives them the tools to change the world. Today, we are millions of passionate youth, women and men working together to shift the world from “me” to “we.” WE Day is an event that celebrates all the volunteering, participation and giving done throughout the year. Key Arena in Seattle was filled with over 16,000 students from all around Washington - the catch however, is students don't buy their tickets, they earn them through volunteering!
The day is celebrated with a jam packed schedule of inspiring artists, speakers, performers and more. This year's lineup included Russell Wilson, Pete Carroll, Buzz Aldrin, Lily Collins, Grace Vanderwaal, Jordan Fisher, and many more!
Microsoft Philanthropies supports and sponsors this incredible non-profit by empowering them with the tools and technology to scale and thrive as a social movement. As a guest of Microsoft, I even got to meet astronaut and national hero, Buzz Aldrin!
Learn more about the entire event here:
& check out the full recap here
Microsoft Edge and non-profit CHOICE Humanitarian partner together to eradicate extreme poverty through building tools to combat literacy in rural Guatemala.
In March, I had the honor of participating in what was one of the most formative trips as I transition in between two roles. I had the privilege of going to rural Guatemala, bringing education and literacy to a classroom of women in rural Guatemala. I got to witness first-hand a community interact and encounter technology for the very first time in their lives. It was extremely powerful and I knew, while what we were doing was so rudimentary (simply bringing computers to a village), it was about to empower and transform a community in ways like never before.
It put into so many things into perspective for me. While technology can already do powerful things and advancing this knowledge-base is important, I realized that the most pressing global issues are not necessarily the most technical. As it turns out, 4 billion people (around 60% of the world) are still not part of the digital economy. And that these people, can benefit tremendously from even the simplest advancements. It made me question: "How do we ensure technology is used to tackle the most important issues we face?" As I transition to a role around driving Social Good in Windows, this immersion experience framed my new mission, one with a greater sense of duty and responsibility, one where I began to see the immense potential that could be released from these untapped, currently inaccessible, communities.
Watch our story here:
Read more about our partnership coverage here:
How Microsoft is Designing an Interface for People who have never used Computers before
I presented a demo at Edge Web Summit -- touching on 3 core tenets that shape our user-driven methodology, and how our team approaches designing a modern browser. I also had a chance to show off all the amazing new features we've added since our initial release. Enjoy!
Watch the other demos, keynotes and presentations on Channel 9.
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/WebPlatformSummit/edgesummit2016/
As we gear up and get ready to ship Windows 10, the Microsoft JobsBlog has featured me and my team in this article - check it out!
Written by Tracy Ith
People around the globe will rely on it for countless everyday tasks — getting the latest information about a world event, gathering facts for a research paper or maybe tracking down the perfect recipe.
But for those working to bring to life Windows 10’s much-anticipated new browser, Microsoft Edge, the company’s goal to innovate off previous generations of Internet Explorer and build a stronger, sleeker product offers nothing short of a chance to make history.
“Working on a brand new browser, we’re able to sculpt and imagine what we think the future of the Web will be like,” says program manager Clarice Chan. “Having hundreds of millions of people using a product that we’re working on is something I definitely wouldn’t have anticipated in my first job out of college.”
It’s an exciting project and a defining time for about 300 software engineers, designers, program managers and people with a variety of other skills — as well as the teams they collaborate with across the company — as they look ahead to the new browser’s primetime debut when Windows 10 launches on July 29.
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I'm excited to be a part of Microsoft's new browser, code name 'Project Spartan'.
Today, we are releasing our first preview of the browser. Coverage can be found on the Verge.
Here is a sneak peak of what's to come:
