When I’m not managing software engineering teams, I’m sometimes working with The Rise Journey, a DEI consultancy. I published this on their blog for Transgender Awareness Week this year November 13th — 19th marks the annual Transgender Awareness Week in which we mindfully dedicate space, time, and new practices to…

This year, for Transgender Awareness Week, I ran a series of posts on LinkedIn describing my experiences of #TransJoy. I’m consolidating them here for posterity and ease of digestion. If you’d like to connect on LinkedIn, you can find me here. Day 1: Today marks the beginning of Transgender Awareness…

When I’m not building high-performing software engineering teams for driveway.com or working in the garden, I’m serving as an advisor for The Rise Journey. It was in that capacity that I recently published an article on their blog, and thought I’d share it here. It’s a topic that is both…

When I’m not building high-performing software engineering teams for driveway.com or working in the yard, I’m serving as an advisor for The Rise Journey. It was in that capacity thatI recently published an article on their blog, and thought I’d share it here. It’s a topic that is both deeply…

As I read people’s #NYE posts, I’ve been seeing a lot of folks kicking the year 2020 to the curb, and it wasn’t sitting right with me. I had to be quiet with that for a few minutes to figure out why. Here’s the thing… It wasn’t 2020’s fault. 2020…

I thought I was prepared. I consider myself to be someone who is ready for things. My house is seismically reinforced, I have enough water and shelf-stable food stored to last my wife and I a few weeks. I thought I was prepared. We keep both cars with full tanks…

Work can often be a lonely place for transgender people. More often than not, we are the only trans person our coworkers know. Last month, I spoke at the Worldwide TransTech Social Summit. The topic of my talk was “Storytelling in the Cis-Centered Workplace”, and in it, I explored ways…

This is a transcript of a talk that I gave at a Pride event held by PDX Women In Tech (PDXWIT), a Portland, OR based non-profit that “exists to encourage women, non-binary, and underrepresented people to join tech and support and empower them so they stay in tech.”. The topic…