WoTech Lunch & Learn

Join the WoTech village for a TED talk style event where we will host female speakers from different backgrounds in technology.  Each speaker will share their unique journey as a female leader in their own lane in an energizing 10 minute, rapid fire talk. Enjoy lunch in great company as each speaker shares their talk peppered with career tips they’ve picked up along the way.

Lunch will be provided. Free, on-site parking is available. Doors open at 11:30am with lunch and networking. Program will begin at Noon. WoTech Lunch & Learn events are for women and people who identify as female.

About the Speakers

Jolene Esposito

Jolene is a Product Designer at Ozmo, a company that specializes in developing tech support products for the telecom industry. She is responsible for creating innovative product concepts, designing user interfaces, and conducting user research to ensure that products are both visually appealing and user-friendly. When Jolene isn’t pondering the usability of complex software, she can be found caring for her many houseplants, playing video games, and working on her 10,000 steps-a-day streak.

Renee Godard

Renee Godard is a professor of biology and environmental studies at Hollins University where she has taught since 1994.  There she offers courses in ecology, animal behavior, environmental science, and field biology as well as research travel courses in the marine ecosystems of the Caribbean and the tropical rainforests and high elevation ecosystems of Ecuador.  Her driving passion is to better understand the complexity of nature and to connect students to the wonder of it all.