Leanne Pittsford Speaking Fee: $10,000 and Below
Travels From:
SFO - San Francisco
Primary Topic Category:
Technology
Secondary Topic Category:
LGBTQIA
Leanne Pittsford Speaker Profile: At A Glance
Leanne is the CEO and Founder of Lesbians Who Tech, the largest LGBTQ community of technologists in the world — committed to visibility, intersectionality, and changing the face of technology, with 40,000 non-binary, LGBTQ women, queer women of color (and our allies) in tech and more than 40+ city chapters worldwide. Over 5,000 women and non-binary people in tech attend the annual San Francisco Summit, making Lesbians Who Tech the largest professional LGBTQ event in the world and the largest event for women in tech in California.
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