In this first episode of Women’s Tech Radio, Angela & Paige interview Lisa Hewus Fresh. Lisa took part in several big projects including Mozilla’s Ascend project. She joins us to discuss her journey into technology & the role Ascend played.

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• OpenHatch – Community tools for free and open source software

OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education.

• Ascend Project – Home

Mentorship and barrier-removing accelerator program designed to explicitly invite, include, and support adult learners in making a first technical contribution to Open Source software.

• Women Who Code

18,000+ Women Developers. 14 Countries.

Our goal is to connect 1 million women in tech by 2019.

• edX | Free online courses from the world’s best universities

Take great online courses from the world’s best universities

• FOSS Outreach Program – Free and Open Source Software internships for people from underrepresented groups

FOSS Outreach Program helps people from groups underrepresented in free and open source software get involved. We provide a supportive community for beginning to contribute any time throughout the year and offer focused internship opportunities twice a year with a number of free software organizations.

• Google Summer of Code – Open Source Programs Office — Google Developers

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers post-secondary student developers
ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source software projects.

• CodeCombat – Learn how to code by playing a game

Learn to Code by Playing a Game

• Anybody can learn | Code.org

Join the Hour of Code
December 8 – 14, 2014

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