• Communicator, writer, end-user-focused technical documentation lead
• Multidisciplinary product manager and innovation services technologist
• Respected community strategist and global social media lead
• SAP Mentor; Technology Ambassador; Top Performer; Top Talent. Recipient: Team Professionalism Award, MVP Innovation Award
• YWCA Tribute to Women Award Honoree

I have been working with software and hardware technology in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1991. From 2001-2019 at SAP, I enjoyed forging progressively innovative approaches to technology leadership in a variety of disciplines, from technical communications to product and community evangelism to leading collaborative experimental communications platforms.

Since 2020 at Tesla, I am proud to be contributing to the mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

In tandem with my work, I am passionate about the potential that online organizing brings to the causes of social justice and equality. And everywhere, I am interested in the vast expanses between formal messaging and raw expression.

Selected Videos

YWCA Silicon Valley 2018 Tribute to Women Awards

SAP’s wrap at the Lesbians Who Tech Summit 2018

Having a lot of fun demoing SAP Cloud Platform Gamification Service together with the fabulous Michael Ameling at SAP TechEd in 2016

News and Other Media

• Lesbians Who Tech: Solving Tech’s Billion $ Problem — SAP; May 24, 2017
  Emceeing a panel and introduction to recruiting tool include.io.
• Profiled for SAP People Behind The Technology series in 2016
• SAP Inside Track Silicon Valley — SAP; September 23, 2016
  Emceeing the full-day SAP Inside Track Silicon Valley 2016 #SITsv!
• Be Yourself. Everyone Wins. — SAP News; February 2, 2016
  Profiled at SAP for the “People Behind The Technology” series.
• Local Bay Area Community Takes a Stand Against Teen Bullying — CNN iReport; July 3, 2012
  I’m included in the reel of interviews that took place after the It Gets Better: SAP Employees premiere night and panel on June 7, 2012 at SAP Labs Palo Alto. A proud night with tragic precedent but hope for a brighter future
• Milk’s legacy lives on through students at school that bears his name — Bay Area Reporter; March 11, 2010
  A B. A. R. reporter asked me for my thoughts before we marched with my daughter’s elementary school Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy to protest massive budget cuts to schools
• Some Celebrate While Others Deplore Court Decision — NBC Bay Area; May 26, 2009
  In which (at about 1 minute in) I openly state that “I wept” when I got the court decision that upheld Proposition 8, the 2008 voter-passed initiative that stripped the right for same-sex couples to marry in California
• Tomasky talk: California votes on Prop 8 — guardian.co.uk; October 29, 2008
  Leanne and I are interviewed on the upcoming Prop 8 vote by the Guardian’s Michael Tomasky. We were sitting at Cafe Flore for the interview, next to campaign HQ where I was volunteering.
• Lesbian Couple Hopes Third ‘I Do’ Proves Charm — NPR; June 13, 2008
  Melissa Block interviews us on “All Things Considered” about our wedding(s) and the then-upcoming Prop 8 vote.

Also Found …

• Blip.fm
• Facebook
• Flickr
• LinkedIn
• MonkeyView: Before there was Flickr!
• My first web site ever
• SAP Community Network profile
• Technically Women
• Twitter
• Yelp