| Conference Dinner Thursday, October 24th |
Dr. Revi Sterling, Technical Director, Women in the Digital Ecosystem Fund (WiDEF) |
Conference Dinner
Thursday, October 24th
Dr. Revi Sterling, Technical Director, Women in the Digital Ecosystem Fund (WiDEF)
Dr. Revi Sterling
Dr. Revi Sterling has worked to advance digital inclusion in both domestic and international contexts for over 25 years. She is the Technical Director for the Women in the Digital Ecosystem Fund (WiDEF), a White House initiative to close the gender and technology gap. She previously developed and ran the USAID Women Connect Challenge, another presidential program that successfully spanned three administrations.
Prior to these positions, Revi founded and directed the first ICT for Development professional master’s program in the United States at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also did her PhD in Technology, Media, and Society. Before academia, Revi spent a decade at Microsoft Research spearheading efforts in gender equity in computer science, and in the Emerging Technologies division as a software engineer and program manager.
She serves on leading gender and technology boards, has testified before the U.S. Congress about emerging technologies, and has received such awards as the Anita Borg Institute’s Social Impact Award and Engineering4Change’s Women Technologist of the Year. She is passionate about rural connectivity, community readiness for technology, and everything related to digital equity.