Akamai Hosts Fireside Chat with ITWomen Mentor Chair Margaret Brisbane, CIO, Miami-Dade County

Margaret Brisbane, ITWomen Board member, Virtual Mentor Chair, recently shared her career journey to becoming Miami-Dade County’s first female CIO/Department Director in a Fireside Chat with leadership groups at Akamai Technologies. Akamai’s GS America’s Inclusion, Diversity, and Engagement (ID&E) team hosted the virtual event, which drew Akamai’s Women’s Forum Americas ERG, as well as extended…

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FIU Graduation a Special Day for ITWomen Mentee, Mentor!

Mentee, Mentor Relationships for Girls in Tech Shine at College Graduation Congrats, Rachel! It was a grand celebration for both mentee and mentor when Rachel Hill, one of  our eight ITWomen scholarship recipients of 2013, graduated from FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences  in the College of Engineering and Computing on May 1. Her…

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Honoring ITWomen Mentors

January is national mentoring month so I would like to take a moment to thank the amazing ITWomen we are blessed to have supporting our Scholarship Winners!  ITWomen’s Virtual Role Models Mentoring Program, led by Margaret Brisbane,  matches ITWomen scholarship winners with female professionals in the field of IT and engineering and

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ITWomen Virtual Mentor Changed Rachel's Life

Rachel Hill, a 2013 ITWomen Scholarship winner, says she could not have imagined how much the ITWomen Virtual Mentoring program and her mentor, Margaret Brisbane, longtime ITWomen member, would change her life. Rachel’s mom, who passed away when Rachel was 12, used to work for the technology group at Miami-Dade County (“ITD”), which is where Margaret works. Through Margaret,…

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