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Alumni / current students to follow on social media

 

Women You Should Be Following on Twitter

A compiled list of women to follow from Deepina Kapila at Skillcrush.com.

These work in development, design, UX, product, gaming, content strategy, interaction design and other awesome web-type fields, and they are hugely influential in tech RIGHT NOW.

  1. ANN FRIEDMAN @ANNFRIEDMAN 
    Ann Friedman is a freelance digital journalist who writes columns about politics, gender and culture for NYMag. 

  2. MINA MARKHAM @MINAMARKHAM 
    Mina is a front-end engineer for Hillary Clinton. She’s also the founder of the Dallas Chapter of Girl Develop It and DFW Sass. She also teaches at Black Girls Code and organizes several cutting-edge conferences.

  3. MEREDITH BORDERS @XYMARLA 
    Meredith is the managing editor of Birth.Movies.Death, Fantastic Fest and the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. 

  4. LYZA DANGER GARDNER @LYZADANGER 
    Lyza co-authored Head First Mobile Web and is a developer, CTO, and cofounder of Cloud Four. She’s a tech generalist and loves web and mobile. 

  5. AMBER CONVILLE @CREBMA 
    Amber is a software developer and conference organizer. Her Tweets and GitHub are a constant source of inspiration. 

  6. AURA SELTZER @AURASELTZER 
    Her Twitter feed is full of helpful resources for students. Aura is a Senior Designer at HappyCog.

  7. AMINATOU SOW @AMINATOU
    Founder of the Tech Lady Mafia and host of the awesome podcast Call Your Girlfriend, Aminatou is a digital strategist and one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Tech. 

  8. JULIE ANN HORVATH @NRRRDCORE
    Julie is a designer and developer and one of the most influential female voices on the web. She’s worked at GitHub and Yammer, and founded Passion Projects—a web series that celebrates women in tech.

  9. GRETA JOHNSEN @GRETAMJOHNSEN 

  10. TRICIA BOBEDA @TRICIABOBEDA
    Greta and Tricia run the fabulous Nerdette Podcast. 

  11. FELICIA DAY @FELICIADAY
    Already a major actress, Felicia has added producer, founder, director, and other major titles to her list of parallel careers. She’s produced several influential web series and launched a wildly successful YouTube Channel called Geek & Sundry that you need to subscribe to right now.

  12. JANE MCGONIGLE @AVANTGAME
     She’s a game designer and educator known for her work in the alternate reality game genre. She’s also an accomplished author of several books, the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto and she serves on the Board of Directors for Games For Change. 

  13. LULU MILLER @LMILLERNPR
    She produced a piece about a transformative road trip she took with her friend.

  14. RACHEL KALMAR @GRAPEALOPE
    Rachel is a Neuroscientist, Data Scientist, Entrepreneur and yes, a Unicyclist. Outside her professional day to day, Rachel is also a researcher and volunteer. Her tweets are daily must-reads.

  15. AMELIA GREENHALL @AMELIAGREENHALL
    Amelia is the founder of Magic Vibes Corporation, building software for wearables for iOS. She also cofounded the popular publication Model View Culture.

  16. LARA HOGAN @LARA_HOGAN
    Lara is a Senior Engineering Manager at Etsy, a feminist who is passionate about impacting the #womenwhocode movement and author of Designing for Performance—a book she’s made available for FREE.

  17. KIM SWIFT @K2THESWIFT
    Kim made Portal, one of the smartest, most haunting games you’ll ever play.

  18. MILENA BERRY @MILENABERRY
    Milena is CEO and Co-Founder of PowerToFly, a company focused on connecting companies hiring remote workers with the perfect candidates. PowertoFly focuses on empowering women to live flexible lives balancing work with commitments at home.

  19. CASSEY HO @BLOGILATES
    Cassey is the creator of POP Pilates and has been named one of the top 25 health and fitness influencers in the world. 

  20. JEN DEWALT @JENNIFERDEWALT
    Jen’s project, 180 websites in 180 days, is shared repeatedly in our web design and development blueprints. 

  21. POORNIMA VIJAYASHANKAR @FEMGINEER
    Poornima is the founder of Femgineer and works tirelessly to empower and educate female engineers. Both her personal account and the Femgineer account are full of great resources and tips.

  22. RESHMA SAUJANI @RESHMASAUJANI
    Reshma is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit GirlsWhoCode and the author of Women Who Don’t Wait in Line. 

  23. ALLISON HOUSE @HOUSE
    Allison is a designer, visual artist, and educator who frequently shares her expertise at conferences and workshops. 

  24. LINDA LIUKAS @LINDALIUKAS
    Linda Liukas has a children’s book about the Ruby programming language. Hello Ruby! 

  25. YESENIA PEREZ-CRUZ @YESENIAA
    Yesenia is a senior product designer at Vox Media as well as an Acquisitions Scout for A List Apart. 

  26. KIMBERLY BRYANT @6GEMS
    Kimberly is the founder and executive director of Black Girls Code and her career has spanned roles ranging from Biotechnology to Engineering to Technical Project Management. She’s a champion of inclusion and diversity and was the White House’s Champion of Change in 2014.

  27. BRIANNA WU @SPACEKATGAL
    Brianna describes herself as the “Godzilla of tech feminists” on her Twitter bio. She’s a prominent game and software developer as well as a trailblazer. Brianna frequently speaks out about issues women face in the tech industry.

  28. CHRISTEN BRANDT @CJBRANDT
    Christen is an advocate for girls’ education. She co-founded She’s the First, where she’s also the Director of International Operations.

  29. LEXI ALEXANDER @LEXIALEX
    Lexi is an Oscar-nominated Director, former world kickboxing champion, and US Marine Corps Combat Instructor. 

  30. SAADIA MUZAFFAR @THISTECHGIRL
    Saadia founded Tech Girls Can, an inclusive Canadian Hub for Women in STEM fields. She’s an inspirational speaker and advocate of women of color in tech.

  31.  KELLY HOEY @JKHOEY
    Kelly is hands down one of the most influential voices on Twitter. She’s a columnist, an investor panelist, and a skilled moderator working in the tech and investment arenas. She’s passionate about emerging tech, start-up, and accelerator programs and actively invests in women and gender-diversity.

  32. LAURA BELGRAY @LBELGRAY
    Laura owns Talking Shrimp and is a creative web copywriter and PR pro. 

  33. SALLIE KRAWCHECK @SALLIEKRAWCHECK
    Sallie is a former wall street executive who just founded Ellevest, a platform geared towards redefining investing for women.

  34. KATIE KOVALCIN @KATIEKOVALCIN
    Katie is an award-winning designer and co-host of The Path to Performance Podcast. She leads the Columbus Dribbble Meetup and is super passionate about getting more women into the tech world.

  35. SAM KAPILA @SAMKAP
    Sam’s a web design instructor at The Iron Yard in Austin and her areas of expertise include Responsive Web Design & Typography. 

  36. LYZI DIAMOND @LYZIDIAMOND
    Lyzi helps runs Maptime and teaches an Intro to Web mapping class in San Francisco. She’s also a 2014 Code for America Fellow and her Twitter feed always teaches something new.

  37. SARAJO @SARAJCHIPPS
    Sara founded GirlDevelopIt in 2010 and went on to become the CTO of Flatiron School. She’s currently the CEO of Jewelbots and is passionate about getting more women to become software developers.

  38. KRISTINA HALVORSON @HALVORSON
    Kristina is CEO and Founder of Brain Traffic and author of Content Strategy for the Web. 

  39. JULIA GRACE @JEWELIA
    Julia is a Senior Engineering Manager at Slack. Her post “An unconventional guide for getting a software engineering job” is a must read for all code newbies.

  40. CHRISTINA MIRANDO @WOMENDB
    Christina is a talented freelance Graphic Design and Founder of Women.Design.Build, an org with a mission to equip all women with tools and resources to lead more self-sufficient lives. She leads educational workshops focused on teaching home-building and design skills.

  41. RACHEL BINX @RACHELBINX
    Rachel is a data visualizer, art historian, and mathematician currently working at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She’s got a diary of her tech experiments on her website and Tweets how I feel.

  42. LAUREN PITTENGER @LAURENPITTENGER
    Lauren is a frontend designer and developer and also an instructor at the Women’s Coding Collective. 

  43. PAM SELLE @PAMASAUR
    Pam is a brilliant software engineer, speaker and author.

  44. SARA WACHTER BOETTCHER @SARA_ANN_MARIE
    Sara is editor-in-chief at A List Apart as well as a content strategist and author

  45. DIANA KIMBALL @DIANAKIMBALL
    Diana is a product manager at SoundCloud. She lives in Berlin and tweets great pieces.

  46. JENNIFER ALDORETTA @JALDORETTA
    Jennifer is CEO of Ready to Groove as well as an engineer and biohacker. R2G helps women understand their bodies via their app.

  47. UNA KRAVETS @UNA
    Una is a talented front end developer at IBM Design and founded both the Sassy DC and ATXSass meetups. She frequently speaks about web performances, Sass, and open source.

  48. DIANA GRIFFIN @DIANADGRIFFIN 

  49. CHEYENNE WEAVER @CHEYENNEWEAVER
    Diana and Cheyenne founded The Girls Guild, where they focus on providing STEM-focused apprenticeships for girls. Both work in interaction and graphic design and have a passion for women’s education.

  50. AMANDA PALMER @AMANDAPALMER
    Amanda is an alt-rock musician, and she’s vocal about making music free. Instead fighting the fact that we can share music for free all over the Internet, she embraces it.