diversity through empathy
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Diversity Through Empathy
Christina Liu @aerialdomo
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Silicon Chef!
• women-centric beginners hardware hackathon
• hardware was provided with secret ingredients
• 100% of teams created a hardware project
• 80% of attendees were identified as female
• 60% reported it was their first time programming
• all team leads and presenters identified as female
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Sympathy
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Empathy
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Empathy leads to understanding.
Understanding leads to diversity.
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Sympathy &
Empathy
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Narrative Crafting
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Narrative Crafting
• creating an experience for the attendees
• write a narrative of how you want someone to experience the event
• keep your narrative generic enough for all teams
• use the narrative as a guide for event planning
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Messaging
• Messaging sets the tone of the event
• Attracts your audience and tells them how to behave
• Sets expectations on what is acceptable
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Code of Conduct
• put it in a prominent place on website
• if possible, make people agree to if before getting tickets
• reiterate during intro time
• http://hackcodeofconduct.org/
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Experience Crafting
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Food• brains run on food
• food is social
• try to accommodate as best you can various dietary restrictions
• Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten-Free and religious restrictions
• label foods that may contain common allergens (nuts, soy, dairy, etc.)
• survey attendees for dietary restrictions
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Experience Crafting!
• post speaker info as soon as you confirm it
• T-shirts, men & women cuts please
• lady products in the bathroom
• more than 2 gender options
• advertise your event through groups whose mission aligns with the hackathon theme
• ask attendees to help clean up the space
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Retrospective• do this with other organizers/staff/event volunteers
• What worked? What didn’t? Why?
• What can we do to improve it for day 2?
• What can we do to improve it for future hackathons?
• Ask attendees what they liked and what we could improve.
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Barrier Removal
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Barrier Removal• Learn to make mistakes properly- “Fail quickly. Fail
softly. Fail safely.”
• Mistakes are how learning happens
• be explicit that you are trying to create a safe space
• hackathons are emotionally intense for EVERYONE!
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Barrier Removal• have open words of encouragement
• let attendees know that you believe in them
• explicit opt in vs implicit opt out
• Ice Breaker: have attendees share 1 thing that they have done that they are proud of to their team
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You• Take care of yourself.
• Listen to your body’s signals.
• Be present when listening.
• If you can’t be present acknowledge that.
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@ aerialdomo
Thanks! 😎
http://www.slideshare.net/aerialdomo/diversity-through-empathy-50651502
Christina Liu