Category: Community

Women in Tech: Finding Allies #PASSDataSummit

The WIT panel spoke on an excellent topic today: needing, and finding, allies at work. Afterward and for the first time ever, I stood and spoke publicly about something in IT that traumatized me. Here is what I said. The panel makes an excellent point about watching out for opportunities to be an ally, e.g., […]

SQL Community: *Welcome* transgender folks!

People in the SQL Server community tend to be inclusive, progressive, welcoming people. But it’s a tendency that we need to work on, especially when it comes to transgender folks. It’s not enough to tolerate, it’s not enough to accept…we must actively include and welcome trans people. We in the SQL community – and in the wider world […]