Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.95 (838 Votes) |
Asin | : | 039959101X |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2013-06-11 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Time, Lenny, and Recode. She has earned an electrical engineering degree from Princeton and law and business degrees from Harvard. Pao is a tech investor, a diversity and inclusion activist at the Kapor Center for Social Impact, the former CEO of reddit, and a cofounder of the award-winning diversity and inclusion non
She reveals in detail her experiences as a woman working in the world of tech and gives voice to the experiences of women working across many professions in America today. She has been open in discussing the challenges she faced as a woman of color trying to foment change in Silicon Valley.”—Lindy West, The New York Times “Ellen Pao courageously confronted Silicon Valley’s venture capital world by calling out bias and discrimination. In Reset, with deep intelligence and a gift for storytelling, Pao movingly and passionately recounts her path to activism and advocacy. This woman has guts.”—Ann Curry. “Necessary and incisive As Ellen Pao detailed her experiences while also communicating her passion for the work men often impeded her from doing, I was noth
She and seven other women tech leaders formed Project Include, an award-winning nonprofit for accelerating diversity and inclusion in tech. Ellen K. Thedaughter of immigrants, Pao was taught that through hard work she could achieve her dreams. Her suit rocked the tech world—and exposed its toxic culture and its homogeneity. Pao’s Reset is a rallying cry—the story of a whistleblower who aims to empower everyone struggling to be heard, in Silicon Valley and beyond.Advance praise for Reset“Necessary and incisive As Ellen Pao detailed her experiences, while also communicating her passion for the work men often impeded her from doing, I was nothing short