Bonus: Modern STEMinists by General Assembly

Episode Summary

General Assembly partners with companies like Bloomberg to provide technology skills training and help upskill employees through intensive bootcamps and programs. Suzanne Mulder, Bloomberg's head of learning, discusses how General Assembly helps build critical data science, analysis, and other tech skills for women and diverse employees at Bloomberg. Mulder explains that upskilling involves adding new technical abilities to leverage existing expertise, which is key as the skills needed for work change rapidly. She took SQL, Tableau, and Python courses with General Assembly herself. Mulder emphasizes the importance of women having a seat at the table in determining the future of work and says a diverse population is needed to work with data and design solutions. She notes that if she could learn these skills, anyone can. Overall, General Assembly equips people and teams with the abilities required to be the STEMinists of the future.

Episode Show Notes

The Encyclopedia Womannica team speaks with a modern day STEMinist from Bloomberg whose team partnered with General Assembly to upskill. Special thanks to General Assembly for sponsoring this week of Encyclopedia Womannica. General Assembly is arming individuals and teams today with the skills they need to be the STEMinists of tomorrow.

Episode Transcript

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Then she started working at ESPN in production and editing. Today, she's an associate software engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Jen's new life path started when she got an email from her supervisor telling her about Disney's Code Rosie program, which gives women in the company technical training and the chance to shift to a STEM role. Looking for a new challenge, this modern-day Steminist signed up for the program, which included a three-month software engineering immersive training powered by General Assembly's instructional team. Code Rosie offered a path out of the field Jen thought she would never leave. SPEAKER_00: My background was all liberal arts, creative writing, and media production, and I read about this coding class that they were offering and kind of went into the process a little naively but very excited to see what this would be. Disney made it very secure and a safe environment for you to explore that, and actually, you could have returned to your career after a few months if you didn't like it. To see technology sort of weave its way in and out of every facet makes it a little less daunting to explore, and I've had to retrain my brain to be a bit more analytical, and I see so much more value in how technology is developed and executed and maintained, and I have a newfound appreciation for the work that goes into every part of this process. I think it's important for companies like General Assembly and Disney to partner and to collaborate on these, in creating these opportunities for diverse engineers to sort of enter into this space, because I consider it a responsibility to maybe changing the perspective of what people think someone in technology looks like, or where their background is, where they're from. 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