DCFT Powerful Women Awards
The DCFemTech Awards will recognize Power Women Programmers & Designers based in the Washington, DC region. We'll congratulate women who are working in the trenches of tech & design to help their company or organization achieve success, sometimes entirely behind the scenes.
2016 Winners
| Powerful Women Programmers | Powerful Women Designers |
|---|---|
| Alexandra Ulsh, Mapbox | Acacia Betancourt, GlobalGiving |
| Alison Rowland, Commerce Data Service | Alesha Randolph, Vox Media |
| Aliya Rahman, Wellstone Action | Alexis Dominick, CircleBack |
| Allison McMillan, General Assemb.ly | Ashleigh Axios, The White House |
| Ally Palanzi, Vox Media | Ashleigh Liggett, Siteworx |
| Amanda Hewitt, 540.co | Behnaz Babazadeh, AddThis |
| Annie J Wang, Analyst Institute | Brooke Jordan, Aquicore |
| Annyce Davis, Off Grid Electric | Crystal C. Yan, FiscalNote |
| Ashley Holtz, CrowdStrike | Daniela Montalvo Shuffler, WeddingWire |
| Carol Hansen, Mapbox | Elisabeth Warren, Clearly Innovative |
| Clare Politano Hutchings, Social Tables | Georgia Cowley, Vox Media |
| Gem Barrett, Open Technology Institute | JoAnna Hunt, Blackboard |
| Jacqueline Kazil, Capital One | Kara DeFrias, 18F |
| Jessica Bell, RepEquity | Karelia Jo Moore, Huge |
| Jessica Dommes, WeddingWire | Libby Bawcombe, NPR |
| Jessica Ng, AOL | Maggie Gaudaen, iStrategyLabs |
| Kat Kuhl, CHIEF | Mariesa Dale, Pivotal Labs |
| Katie Cunningham, SpeakAgent | Melanie Charlton, Brllnt |
| Lindsay Young, 18F | Mollie Bates, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| Lisa Chung, The Motley Fool | Mollie Ruskin, U.S. Digital Service |
| Lizzie Ellis, Democratic National Committee | Ngan Hoang, Vox Media, Inc. |
| Pamela Vong, InfernoRed Technology | Olivia Cheng, iStrategyLabs |
| Rakia Finley, Surge Assembly and FIN. Digital | Radhika Bhatt, Department of Commerce |
| Tammy Perrin, Attunity | Ramla Mahmood, Vox Media |
| Veni Kunche, Blasterra and USGS Geological Survey | Sarah Brooks, Veterans Affairs |
| Vera Lyalko, JBS International, Inc. | Sibyl Edwards, Freelancer |
Press
Sponsors
- Capital One
Capital One is a different kind of company – we’re a top 10 bank, but we operate more like a tech company than a financial institution. Diversity, equality, and inclusion are central to the Capital One workplace culture as well. Our Women in Tech initiative that is bringing women and men together to focus on improving the representation of women in the technology field and supporting the career development of women in our organization. We’re growing our teams and hiring engineers, data scientists, and designers and offering them an exciting opportunity to join an organization that is building its own software and changing the way people interact with their money.
- Siteworx
Siteworx, a leading digital experience agency with two DCFemTech winners on its team, is proud to support the 2016 awards. For more than a decade, Siteworx has applied a craftsman-level attention to designing services and experiences and engaged with deep technical expertise to solve the most complex digital challenges. Leaders such as Time Warner Cable, Citrix Online and Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group look to Siteworx to achieve tangible results across the full marketing value chain by creating experiences that serve the needs, wants and desires of their customers.
- Wingate Hughes
A relationship-driven interior architecture firm based in Washington, D.C., Wingate Hughes Architects is taking over the area with convention-defying, provocative designs for the District’s most compelling, innovative clients. Our workplace designs for D.C.’s leading entrepreneurial high-growth companies inspire bold ideas and creativity. Recent notable clients include EverFi, Social Radar, Optoro, 1776, nclud, Endgame, iStrategy Labs, Learning Objects, and the Society of the Plastics Industry.
- GitHub
GitHub is how people build software. Millions of individuals, organizations and government agencies around the world use GitHub to discover, share, and collaborate on software—from games and experiments to popular frameworks and leading applications. Together, we’re defining how software is built today.
- Social Tables
Social Tables is a Washington, D.C. based event planning software company. The award-winning platform has been used to source, plan and execute over nearly one million events since 2011. The company has 4,000 customers in 100 countries and has been recognized as one of the best places to work in the D.C. area by the Washington Post and SmartCEO.
Nomination Process
DCFemTech opened the call for nominations for outstanding women programmers/engineers and designers based in the DC region on February 24, 2016 and received 190 submissions. The awards were expanded to include a design category for 2016 as a result of the overwhelming response in 2015.
Nominations were down selected by a committee made up of twelve women programmers, engineers, designers and executives for each category.
This year’s programmer recipients were chosen based on: Impact on organization (helped company/non-profit grow & achieve goals); Complexity of issues addressed with code (building a webpage vs. a complex system); Impact on community (contributed to broader tech/women in tech community or open source contributions).
The design recipients were selected based on similar criteria: Impact on organization (helped company/non-profit grow & achieve goals); Complexity of issues addressed with design (designing a platform that provides a great user experience vs. one page website); and Impact on community (contributed to broader tech/women in tech community or open source contributions).