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Nadia Gathers is a University Innovation Fellow and Converse College alum. She is an intersectional feminist, like everyone should be. While not actively overthrowing the patriarchy, she is a Program Manager and Producer at Github.

In past lives she's taught struggling second graders how to read in Big Ugly, West Virginia, facilitated design thinking sessions for professional engineers and college students alike, captained a NCAA women's basketball team, taught a class on inclusive I&E, and spoken at a few national conferences (where, on more than one occasion, she cried onstage).

Nadia is a human-centered designer, an aspiring yogi, and a storyteller. She creates content that allows people to express and fulfill their needs & serve the needs of others. She has worked closely with numerous organizations, including Z80 Technology Incubator, Girl Develop It, BLK_SHP, Every Person Influences Children, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center. She is CODE2040 fam for life.

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-<div>Nadia Gathers is a University Innovation Fellow at Converse College. In doing so, she works with Epicenter leaders at Stanford University and VentureWell to ensure all students graduate with an entrepreneurial mindset. She is a feminist, like everyone should be. When not actively overthrowing the patriarchy, she studied at Converse College, where she designed the institution's first Social Entrepreneurship curriculum.</div><div><br/></div><div>Nadia has created a nationally recognized action plan to increase gender diversity in executive suites while increasing profit margins alongside the benefit corporation, Womenetics. She's worked with Buffalo, New York tech start-ups to do the not-so-glamorous dirty work of starting a business. She has developed three award winning business concepts, including a sportswear company tailored specifically to Muslim athletes. She helped create the nation's first environmentally responsive, permanent outdoor video installation, The Front Yard. She's been a facilitator at workshops for at-risk high school students, and coached an all-girls basketball team to a co-ed league championship. Most notably, she once taught a second grader how to read.&nbsp;</div><div><br/></div><div>Currently, Nadia runs communications for CODE2040, a San Francisco based non-profit that helps Black and Latinx technologists enter and succeed within the innovation economy.</div><div><br/></div><div>Nadia is passionate about catalyzing social movements on a local level. She has worked closely with numerous organizations, including Z80 Technology Incubator, Girl Develop It, BLK_SHP, Every Person Influences Children, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center.&nbsp;</div>
+<div>Nadia Gathers is a University Innovation Fellow and Converse College alum. She is an intersectional feminist, like everyone should be. While not actively overthrowing the patriarchy, she is a Program Manager and Producer at Github.&nbsp;</div><div><br/></div><div>In past lives she's taught struggling second graders how to read in Big Ugly, West Virginia, facilitated design thinking sessions for professional engineers and college students alike, captained a NCAA women's basketball team, taught a class on inclusive I&E, and spoken at a few national conferences (where, on more than one occasion, she cried onstage).&nbsp;</div><div><br/></div><div>Nadia is a human-centered designer, an aspiring yogi, and a storyteller. She creates content that allows people to express and fulfill their needs & serve the needs of others. She has worked closely with numerous organizations, including Z80 Technology Incubator, Girl Develop It, BLK_SHP, Every Person Influences Children, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center. She is CODE2040 fam for life.&nbsp;</div>
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